Virtual Burnham

The Virtual Burnham Initiative (VBI) transformed a selection of flat images from the 1909 Plan of Chicago—by Daniel H. Burnham and Edward H. Bennett—into 3-D models. 

Original Project Participants

FACULTY

Davis Schneiderman, VBI director

Rachel Ragland, Director of Extra-Curricular Partnerships and Assessment

Holly Swyers, Director of Support Resources and Visualization Coordinator

Donald C. Meyer, Musical Director for “The City that Never Was”

Donnie Sendelbach, VBI Co-Director, through October 2008

Students:

Joshua Anderson, Lead modeler for the Letters Building in Grant Park and The Court House in the Civic Center

Elizabeth Birnbaum, Research assistant, viral video

Emily Hilgenberg, Music for publicity videos

Karen Larson, Summer 2008 project co-ordinator (Richter Scholar), publicity videos

Kamil Madjeski, Virtual models

Michael Ojdana, Lead modeler and researcher for the Science Building, Art Building, Grant Park landscape, and the Monroe Harbor Quincy Roberts, Early design work

Saugat Shrestha, Webmaster, overlay creator

Emily Snowberg, Summer 2009 research assistant

Clarissa Thiessen, Virtual models, research assistant

Erik Wingo, Early design work

Minxu Zhang, Summer 2009 project co-ordinator (Richter Scholar)