During the course of her academic career, Professor Mirka Beneš has documented a wide range of landscapes and supporting materials such as rare prints, maps, drawings, and written documents. From Professor Beneš’s extensive slide collection, a group of almost 8,000 teaching slides—used in support of her two lecture courses in the history and theories of landscape architecture—were selected and, over the past 16 months, in collaboration with Professor Beneš, the slides have been cataloged and digitized by the School of Architecture’s Visual Resources Collection (VRC).
Mr. Dittmar is internationally recognized for a distinguished career in urban design and transportation, including service as President & CEO of Reconnecting America and as an appointee to the President?s Council on Sustainable Development. Since 2005, he has served as Chief Executive of The Prince's Foundation for the Built Environment in the United Kingdom. He chaired the Congress for the New Urbanism, an international membership organization that promotes the creation and restoration of compact, walkable, mixed-use cities, towns, and neighborhoods.
Traveling throughout India for six weeks in summer 2006 with the Advanced Travel India Studio led by Lecturers Pankaj Gupta and Christine Mueller, Sarah Hill was provided with many opportunities to document the visually rich environment. The selection of images in this exhibition represents a small sampling of over 3700 digital images that are now part of the School of Architecture's Visual Resources Image Collection; the images are available for use by the University community for study, teaching, and research.