Alex Ely Email & Phone Number

London, Gb

London Area, United Kingdom

Alex is an architect, town planner and founder of Mæ. He has led the practice in establishing an international reputation for innovation and excellence. Alex balances working for architecture and civil society advising government and its agencies on the built environment, combining planning and policy experience with a passion for good design. Alex has been responsible for a wide range of award winning schemes from masterplans to cultural buildings, housing projects to health care as well as for the Mayor of London’s Housing Design Guide and numerous best practice publications for CABEAlex is a CABE Built Environment Expert, a member of the GLA’s and LLDC’s Review Panels, the RIBA's Housing Policy Group and is a Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Chartered Architects. Alex runs a Diploma unit at the Cass School of Architecture and is a frequent public speaker at national and international urban and design forums.

Central London

We are Mæ • Architects • Urban designers • Researchers • Policy makers. Mæ designs buildings that seek to address today’s urban, social and environmental challenges. Our aim is always to create buildings and places that enrich culture and society.We thrive on collaboration. Working on regeneration projects for public and private sector clients, we talk – and listen – to colleagues and communities. Our design solutions match the client’s brief with the varied day-to-day needs of the building’s users.Focusing on brownfield sites, we promote green policies. We’ve designed the UK’s largest newbuild Passivhaus scheme and each new project reinforces our environmental credentials. At Mæ, we blend creativity, humanity and sustainability.We see the big picture. To us, placemaking is a vital part of the process. Working in the housing, workplace, health & care, civic and cultural buildings sectors, we design at all scales. From the city to the living room, we apply integrated thinking.

London, United Kingdom

Design Advocates provide expertise and guidance to the Mayor's Good Growth programme and related mayoral policies. They help the mayor and his agencies to ensure the highest standards for projects commissioned by the Greater London Authority Group.

Sheffield, United Kingdom

Senior Policy Advisor and Head of Sustainable Communities at the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment with responsibility for Housing policy, research and advocacy. Initiatives managed include Building for Life.

Design tutor and Senior Lecturer

Hong Kong

design team for Chek Lap Kok airport

Professional Practice Riba Part 3, Architecture

Master Of Arts (M.A.), Architecture

Ba Hons, Architecture

Town Planning