Throughout his distinguished academic career, Dr. Lynn S. Beedle established Bethlehem’s Lehigh University as a mecca for the study of structural steel engineering. Beedle is best known for founding the Council of Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat in 1969. The Council brings together experts of diverse fields to study the effects that buildings can have on urban environments. The first headquarters of the Council was on the campus of Lehigh University, right in the heart of Bethlehem.
Beedle is hailed as a pioneer behind the modern understanding of urban buildings and living. As written by the Berkeley Engineering Alumni Society, “In founding the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat, he [Beedle] brought together architects, engineers, environmentalists, social scientists, artists, and politicians, blazing a trail to the creation of better designed, more livable cities.” Beedle, a visionary, spent his life designing a better world for everyone on it.
