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, Kyle, and Lauren Panton. 2013. Improving site engineering instruction: A comparison across multiple data sets. Paper read at the Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture Annual Conference: Space*Time / Place*Duration, March 27 - 30, 2013, at the University of Texas (Austin, TX).
• Morrison, Julia, and Kyle Beidler. 2013. Chatham Village: A look at spatial experiences through time. Paper read at the Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture Annual Conference: Space*Time / Place*Duration, March 27 - 30, 2013, at the University of Texas (Austin, TX).
• Beidler, Kyle, and Lauren Panton. 2012. The effects and assessment benefits of digital 'mastery quizzes' on student performance in site engineering. Paper read at the Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture Annual Conference: Finding Center Landscape + Values, March 28 - 31, 2012, at the University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign, IL).
• London, Alan, and Kyle Beidler. 2012. A place for soldiers on the mall: The landscape narrative of the Korean War Veterans Memorial. Paper read at the Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture Annual Conference: Finding Center Landscape + Values, March 28 - 31, 2012, at the University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign, IL).
• Cardasis, Dean, and Kyle Beidler. 2011. Reflections on suburbia: Extrapolating healthier spatial principles for house and garden. Paper read at the Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture Annual Conference: Urban/Nature, March 30 - April 2, 2011, at Los Angeles, CA.
• Beidler, Kyle. 2009. Sense of place and New Urbanism: Towards a holistic understanding of place & form. Paper read at the Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture Annual Conference: Teaching + Learning Landscape, January 14 - 17, 2009, at Tucson, AZ.
• Beidler, Kyle. 2007. Development of sense of place in a nontraditional automobile suburb. Paper read at Congress of New Urbanism; CNU XV - New Urbanism and the Old City, May 17 - 20, 2007, at Philadelphia, PA.