MATTHEW BARAN, ARCHITECT
536 Peru Ave., San Francisco, CA. 94112 mbaran@mbarchitect.net 415.586.4760
Licenses & Certification
California Architects Board:
License No. 28926, 2001
United States Green Building Council Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design
Accredited Version 2.1, completed 2002
Education
University of California Berkeley
Master of Architecture, 2008
Programs and Research:
Thesis: The Space of Erasure: Extraction, Adaptation and the Zero Street
University of Southern California
Bachelor of Architecture, 1996 Cum Laude
Programs and Research:
Thesis: Digital Analog Intersections: Overlapping Spaces of Real and Virtual Worlds
V.R. Research: Development of coding software for virtual reality experimentation
Shelters: Construction and deployment of portable homeless shelters
Selected Project Chronology
Oakland House.
Oakland, CA. 2007. Development prototype for an affordable, 1500 SF home. All phases including property acquisition, project funding, design and construction. Scheduled completion 2009.
Mobile Architecture Sustainable System.
Various Locations 2006. Prototype for a job training center that adapts to environmental conditions. AIA award for Unbuilt Architecture, 2006
Red Star Housing.
Oakland, CA. 2005. Project lead on concept design to construction documents for a $27M, 119 unit, 121,000 SF affordable multifamily housing project. Scheduled completion 2007. With Philip Banta Associates Architecture.
UC Riverside Student Center.
Riverside, CA. 2004. Production team for concept to design development for $42M 120,000 SF student center. Scheduled completion 2007. With Kaplan McLaughlin Diaz
Tomihiro Museum of Shi-Ga.
Gunma, Japan 2002. Design competition for approx. 7000 sq. meters to house the permanent collection of watercolors and poems by Tomihiro Hoshino.
Desert House.
Anza, CA. 2001. Design of a development prototype for an small artist’s home and studio. Unbuilt. Exhibited, University of Florence. Published in ‘Intimacy’
Pacific Athletic Club.
San Diego, CA. 2000. Production for schematics to construction observation for a $26M 87,000 S.F. athletic club. Completed 2002. With Form 4 Architecture
Manhattan Beach House.
Manhattan Beach, CA. 1999. Concept design to construction documents for a small, low budget single family home. Completed 2000.
Roppongi.
Tokyo, Japan 1997. Project team for master plan, schematics, design development for plaza and subway station. Completed 2004. With The Jerde Partnership.
Canyon House.
Los Angeles, CA. 1994. Project team design and construction. Completed 2005. With The Angelil Graham.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Critic. Various Locations
Invited critic final and miscellaneous reviews, UC Berkeley, Stanford University, California College of the Arts, Academy of Art College. 2005-2008
Environmental Design 11b. University of California, Berkeley
Lecturer for second year introductory design studio. Educational goals included understanding formal and spatial concepts, and various modes of design representation. Summer Semester 2008
‘Urban Plan’. Lowell High School, San Francisco, CA.
Volunteer for Urban Land Institute program to educate high school students about real estate development from various design and financial perspectives, 2007
Publications
“Matt Baran Thinks Outside the Green Box” Lehman, Paula.
East Bay West Online. December, 2008.
Oakland House, 2008
“Green People: Matt Baran” Bean, Jonathan.
Apartment Therapy: ReNest. July, 2008
Oakland House, 2008.
“July 2008 Feature: Mobile Architecture Sustainable System”
Architube.Com. July, 2008
Mobile Architecture Sustainable System. 2008.
“Video Features”JapanArchitect.Org
Museum of Shi-Ga. 2008.
“AIASF Design Awards”
California Home + Design. Hartle Media Ventures LLC. May 2006.
Mobile Architecture Sustainable System, 2006
“Intimate Places, Open Spaces” Fanelli, Rossita.
European Art Magazine. Tribunale Di Roma. May 2005. Desert House. 2004.
Intimacy. Marco Brizzi.
University of Florence Press. May 2004.
Desert House. 2004.
Digital Architectures. Uddin, M. Saleh.
McGraw Hill. May 1999.
The New School of Architecture. Thesis Project. 1996.
You Are Here. Anderton, Francis.
Phaidon Press Limited. October 1999.
Roppongi. 1997. With The Jerde Partnership Intl'.
GA Houses. Yukio Futagawa.
ADA Edita Tokyo Co. Ltd. June 1995.
Topanga Canyon House. Los Angeles, CA. 1994. With Angelil / Graham.
“Architecture Class Does Homework” Doherty, Jake.
Los Angeles Times, January 5, 1993
Transportable homeless shelters built by USC faculty and Students
Exhibitions
UC Berkeley College of Environmental Design
Web Exhibition. Limited selection of CED alumni work. ‘Zero Streets’, 2008
City of the Future: A Design and Engineering Challenge
San Francisco Ferry Building. One of six teams exhibited. ‘IF’ Architecture Team, ‘Wild Urbanism’ Proposal. January, 2008
AIA San Francisco Design Awards: Unbuilt Design
Newly Renovated AIA Space Opening. ‘Mobile Architecture Sustainable System’. May 2006
Presidio Del Libro
Palazzo Pino Pascali, Museo Comunale D’Arte Contemporanea, Bari, Italy. Rosalba Brana, Curator. 'Desert House’. June, 2005
Intimacy
University of Florence School of Architecture, Florence, Italy. 'Desert House'. October 2004
New Media, Cinema, and Innovation: From Reconstruction to Sustainability
SESV Spazio Espositivo Di Santa Verdiana, Florence, Italy. 'New School'. December,1999
AWARDS
Malcolm Reynolds Prize
Full tuition and stipend for portfolio and research proposal. August, 2007
AIA San Francisco Design Awards: Unbuilt Design
Merit Award. Mobile Architecture Sustainable System. May 2006
Professional Affiliations
Urban Land Institute (ULI) Member
San Francisco Planning & Urban Research Association (SPUR) Member
United States Green Building Council (USGBC) Member
Other Activity
Apollo Alliance
Assisted in the establishment of a West Oakland Apollo Alliance through the development of an Apollo Green Building pilot project
Habitat For Humanity: Site Selection Volunteer
Assisted in the initial stages of the selection of possible project sites and contributed to the development of materials for the promotion of Habitat to potential donors
