Aleks Baharlo

Aleks Baharlo is Executive Director of UC Berkeley's Abbey Master of Real Estate Development + Design (MRED+D). In this role, he articulates the program’s vision, strategic direction, and objectives, while overseeing curriculum planning and implementation.

With over 15 years of teaching experience, Baharlo has taught undergraduate and graduate courses in environmental design, architecture, and real estate development at USC, UC Berkeley, and UCLA. Most recently, he served as an instructor at USC’s Price School of Public Policy (2018–2024), where he authored and taught Shaping Cities Through Real Estate, a course focused on infill residential development.

An accomplished architect, builder, and real estate developer with more than 30 years of experience, Baharlo is the principal architect of Aleks Baharlo Architecture and President and Managing Partner of a privately held real estate development and investment platform based in Los Angeles. His firm manages a national portfolio of industrial, multifamily, and residential assets. Previously, as Executive Vice President at Larwin, one of Los Angeles’ largest private development firms, he led land acquisition, forward planning, and operations, delivering award-winning master-planned communities, urban infill housing, and single-family developments totaling more than 3,000 units across California.

Baharlo currently serves on the ULI San Francisco Residential Local Product Council (RLPC). He previously held leadership roles on the ULI Los Angeles RLPC, the Political Action Committee, and the Governing Board of the Building Industry Association of Southern California, including a two-year term as President of its Los Angeles Chapter. Earlier in his career, Baharlo practiced architecture in the Bay Area with firms such as Fernau + Hartman Architects, Esherick Homsey Dodge and Davis, and Stone Marraccini Patterson. He was also the founding partner of East Bay Design and Architecture, a design/build firm in Berkeley, CA.

MRED+D Program
RDEV 280 – Directed Capstone
RDEV 290 – Real Estate + Design Intensive: Los Angeles

UC Berkeley College of Environmental Design
ARCH 200A – Introduction to Architecture Studio
ARCH 101 – Advanced Architectural Design
ARCH 100B – Fundamentals of Architectural Design
ARCH 100A – Fundamentals of Architectural Design
ED 11B – Introduction to Design
ED 4 – Introduction to Environmental Design