LAFS serves as a digital archive for the website of the Landscape Architecture Film Series, a student-led initiative which I co-founded and co-curated for the Department of Landscape Architecture at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in the early 2000s.

This repository preserves a sentimental piece of personal digital history. What would otherwise exist only as slowly disintegrating bits on a forgotten CD in a remote storage facility, as fragmented snapshots somewhere in the depths of the Internet Archive, or as a vaselined landscape in some province of collective memory has—here and at l-a-f-s.org—been meticulously restored and recreated.

LAFS is intended for:

• Self-guided learners seeking a reference implementation of modern backend web architecture powering a straightforward content website with simple navigation patterns.
• Landscape architecture students and faculty interested in the intersection of film and landscape studies.
• Cinema enthusiasts looking for a few good films to watch.

• 📚 Historical Preservation - Faithful recreation of website from the early 2000s
• 🌐 Modern Dev Tooling - Implementation of a modern web architecture and software development practices
• 📱 Dynamic Responsiveness - Mobile-adjustable layout for today's wide range of devices
• 🎬 Curated Film Database - Recreated collection preserving information about past screenings
• 🗺️ Location Context - Google Maps integration for historical site reference