Leigh Kyle grew up drawing and playing outdoors in the Hudson River Valley, an area with very interesting topography and geology and the birthplace of the Hudson River School of painting. Perhaps this is where she became interested in creating memorable places.
After graduating in the mid-’80s from Swarthmore College with a degree in religion and film studies, Kyle spent more than 10 years building film sets, mostly on period films on location up and down the Eastern Seaboard. Research and detail-oriented driven, with an education in vernacular architecture and landscape, and thinking about how people live — this type of work suited her well.
In the ’90s, while earning a master’s degree in architecture from Columbia University, Kyle discovered what interested her the most is the relationship of building to site.
“Had I gone to a school with programs in both architecture and landscape architecture, I likely would have made the switch to landscape architecture,” Kyle said.
Landscape architects have the opportunity to create places that people attach themselves to. Places they return to again and again, places that evoke a sense of place and connection to a place. Landscape is the cohesive, connecting element on a complex site, explained Kyle.
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