Mark P. Beer
About Mark
Despite being FRMWRK’s newest partner and principal, Mark and Ryan have worked together for over a decade. Growing up, Mark always had a passion for the outdoors, nature, and design. Some of his earliest memories were spent hiking through state parks and sketching in notebooks. He frequently spent time in the lakes of northern Indiana as well as hiking the rolling hills and rocky outcrops of the southern part of the state. These formative experiences shaped his love for landscape and cultivated a life-long desire to work as a creative.
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Multi-faceted
Mark earned his Bachelor of Science in Landscape Architecture from Purdue University. Throughout his career Mark has been a champion for the power of collaboration and co-creating in the design process. His work has spanned across many markets from higher education, institutional, and private; to public realm planning and design. He has facilitated and collaborated on the creation of iconic spaces at venues such as The Indianapolis Motor Speedway and Indiana University’s Eskenazi Museum of Art. Mark’s passion for design is evident in his work which strives to provide ever more equitable, accessible, diverse, and beautiful places for people.
Mark enjoys travelling and spending time with his family and friends. He has a passion for playing guitar and frequently creates music with his two daughters.
Passion for Place-centric Design
Mark’s work as a Landscape Architect and Planner is rooted in a sense of place. He has a deep passion and curiosity for the interconnectivity between large scale systems and localized ecosystems both natural and built. Mark has a love for simple, elegant solutions in design. He is an advocate for collaborative, equitable, design process that produce solutions which elevate the collective and strive to make the built world a more environmentally sensitive and beautiful place.
