Baran Balkan
Urban/Landscape Designer
Profile
Mr. Balkan is an Urban / Landscape Designer. He contributes to all phases of the design process, including production on schematic, design development, and construction drawings, planting plans, construction details, and specification writing. He is skilled in the production of 3D drawings, sketches, models and color renderings, both free hand and computer-aided.
Broad experience with computers, CAD, and a variety of graphic software enables him to coordinate with any associated firms. He also assists in the design and production of marketing materials.
Mr. Balkan has worked on a range of projects involving large-scale planning and smaller courtyard spaces, as well as numerous Chicago landscape ordinance based projects, for which he has a special expertise.
Selected Work Experience
Cultural Landscape Preservation
Adams House, FLWright
Burton Westcott House, FLWright
Vachel Lindsay Home
Robie House, FL Wright
Ragdale Foundation
Landscape Architecture
Austin Garden Master Plan
Baha’i House of Worship Gardens
The Glen Athletic Fields & Tennis Courts
Lakefront Millennium Park
Oak Park Public Library
Southwest Women Working Together
Serenity Garden
Midway Airport Parking Garage
Residential Projects
Adamac
Barbato Roof Deck
Hoffmann Garden
Kent
Lopat / Drummond
Stoltz
Campus Design & Planning
Lee Hurley Pasteur Elementary School
Northwestern University Ford Design Center
Oak Park & River Forest High School Pedestrian Mall
Oak Park Comprehensive Plan
Webster University Garden Avenue
Webster University Library Plaza
Webster University Master Plan
University of Illinois at Chicago Mixed-use Development
Commercial
99th Street METRA Station
Joliet Metra Station
107th St Metra Station
Chicago Landscape Ordinance Reviews
Guardian Company Facility
Johnson Controls Headquarters
M & M Mars
Mather Café
Midway Games River Walk and Parking Lot
Oak Park Public Works Facility
Radio Flyer
Watersaver Company Facility
Education
Kaplan International Language School, Chicago, Illinois, March – June 2001
Bachelor of Fine Arts in Landscape Architecture and Urban Design, Bilkent University, Faculty of Fine Arts, Department of Landscape Architecture and Urban Design, Ankara, Turkey, 1998