[2] He received his Bachelor of Architecture from the University of the Witwatersran (South Africa)[3] in 1971 and his Master of Environmental Design (M.E.D.)
[4] He has published over 100 articles and has delivered more than 85 invited lectures in the U.S. and abroad on architectural practice, design theory and research, computing, art, and ethics.
Benedikt is a 2004 ACSA Distinguished Professor at the University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture, where he holds the Hal Box Chair in Urbanism.
In his work as architect and professor of urbanism, Benedikt proposed the adoption of the "interiorist" model.
[2] Benedikt also refined the notion of isovist, a geometric concept used in architecture to denote the volume visible from a given location, in a view-independent fashion.