Mira Engler

Mira Engler, Ph.D. is an Emerita Professor of Landscape Architecture and Urban Design at Iowa State University. She studied landscape architecture at the Technion, Haifa, Israel and UC Berkeley, California, USA and architecture at UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA. Her previous books, Designing America’s Waste Landscapes and Cut and Paste Urban: Landscape: The Work of Gordon Cullen, explore societal and professional attitudes toward waste and the design of dumps and sewage grounds and image making in landscape and urban design in the postwar consumer culture era through the drawings and writing of Gordon Cullen, respectively. She currently studies the relationship of landscape design, immersion, and virtual culture.