Master of Landscape Architecture Faculty and Staff

Kyle Beidler PhD, ASLA

kbeidler@chatham.edu
Assistant Professor & Interim Program Director

Hometown : Allentown, PA
Joined Chatham : 2010

Academic Areas of Interest

Neighborhood and Community Design, Participatory Planning Techniques, Qualitative Research Methods, Sustainable Site Engineering Practices, Digital Technologies and Design Communication

Biography

I am interested in understanding how issues of place intersect questions of participatory planning and sustainable community design. My research continues to delineate fundamental experiences of place from the perspectives of individual residents. This scholarship has yielded subjective indicators of community livability which seek to better inform the design and construction of our neighborhoods.

Education

• Penn State, Bachelor of Landscape Architecture
• Iowa State, Master of Landscape Architecture
• Iowa State, Master of Community and Regional Planning
• Virginia Tech, Ph.D. in Environmental Design and Planning

Presentations

• Beidler, K. and Panton, L. “The effects and assessment benefits of digital ‘mastery quizzes’ on student performance in site engineering.” Presentation given at the CELA Annual Conference: Finding Center Landscape + Values. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. March, 2012
• London, A. and Beidler, K. “A place for soldiers on the mall: the landscape narrative of the Korean War Veterans Memorial.” Presentation given at the CELA Annual Conference: Finding Center Landscape + Values. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. 2012
• Beidler, K and Cardasis, D. “Reflections on Suburbia: Extrapolating Healthier Spatial Principles for House and Garden.” Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture Annual Conference (Los Angeles, CA). March 2011
• Beidler, K. “Sense of Pace and New Urbanism: Towards a Holistic Understanding of Place & Form.” Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture Annual Conference (Tucson, AZ). January, 2009
• Beidler, K. “Development of Sense of Place in a Nontraditional Automobile Suburb.” Congress of New Urbanism, CNU XV (Philadelphia, PA). May 2007