Aleks Baharlo
BIOGRAPHY
Aleks Baharlo is the Executive Director of the Abbey Master of Real Estate Development + Design program. Previously, Aleks was adjunct professor at The Price School of Policy, Planning and Development at USC. He also taught at the undergraduate and graduate levels in environmental design, architecture and real estate development at UC Berkeley and UCLA.
Aleks is a real estate development executive with over 25 years of experience at both public and private development companies. He has managed a nationwide industrial portfolio, residential infill developments across California, and a portfolio of multi-family assets across the United States. In his prior role for one the largest private development companies in Los Angeles, Aleks was responsible for land acquisition, forward planning, entitlements, land development and construction for award-winning projects, including several master planned communities, urban infill housing, and single-family detached communities, totaling over 3000 units in Southern and Central California.
Aleks served as a member of the Los Angeles Urban Land Institute Housing Committee and on the Political Action Committee and Governing Board of the Building Industry Association of Southern California, which included a two-year term as president of the Los Angeles Chapter. Aleks also practiced as an architect and builder in the Bay Area and was the founding partner of East Bay Design and Architecture in Berkeley, CA.
COURSES TAUGHT
RDEV 280 – Directed Capstone
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
ED4 – Introduction to Environmental Design