about
Pınar Balat, born in Ankara, is an Amsterdam based architect, urbanist and researcher. Pınar has a Bachelor of Science degree from METU (Ankara), a master’s degree on collective housing from UPM (Madrid) and a Master of Science degree on architecture and urbanism from TU Delft. In 2015, she founded her own office, Studio Pınar Balat, with the aspiration to contribute to just and sustainable urban environments through her work.
work
In the past years Pınar worked for various architecture and urban design offices in the Netherlands on projects of housing, neighbourhood scale urban planning and inner-city transformations. Parallelly, she has conducted design-based research on various contemporary urban questions such as feeling at home in the city, ecologically and socially just city neighbourhoods, healthy city and citizens and the just transformation of post-war neighbourhoods. In her projects, Pınar combines spatial theory and practice, and works through different scales.
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Pınar Balat currently works as an independent urban researcher. She offers her expertise on spatial justice to various organisations and offices for projects of housing, neighbourhood planning and public space. Pınar, through various research projects, explores the role of design and design professionals in increasing urban justice. She regularly takes part in debates concerning the future of urban areas in the Netherlands, and she is in the Advisory Committee of Architectuurcentrum Amsterdam.
