Joel Berman
Architect, Designer, and Artist in Chicago, Illinois USA
Joel Berman, ALA, NCARB, is the founder and Principal of Berman Design, a full service professional architecture and branding design firm specializing in hospitality, adaptive reuse, recording studios, and the retail prototype for North American restaurant franchise systems. Project work includes Smyth/The Loyalist (Chicago), Zunzi's Restaurant and Bar (Savannah GA Historic District), B Nutritious Retail Prototype (https://www.bermanarchitecture.com/b-nutritious), conversion of a turn of the century Chicago fire station into a video production studio (https://www.bermanarchitecture.com/firehouse-studios), and an award winning preservation of a historic 1920’s White Castle in Chicago's South Loop Motor Row Landmark District (Chef Luciano). Joel is a licensed architect in Illinois, Indiana, Georgia, Florida, and Massachusetts. Joel and his team use freehand drawing as a design tool; he also teaches freehand drawing virtually and in person: see BermanSketching.com