Experience

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  DesignInc Sydney

  • Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

  • Principal

    • Feb 2024 - Present
    • Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

    DesignInc Sydney is home to over 90 experts in architecture, interior design, landscape, urban design and master planning. We understand the complexities of designing universities, schools, workplaces, community facilities, housing, transport infrastructure. We are driven by the desire to create sustainable, equitable, and beautiful places. Alex is responsible for delivering complex Tertiary Education and Commercial projects in collaboration with DesignInc's multidisciplinary team.

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  Aetā Studio

  • Australia
  • Architecture and Planning
  • 1 - 100 Employee

  • Director

    • Jul 2018 - Present

    Alex is the founder and Director of boutique Architectural practice, Aeta Studio.Alex’s career spans 20 years, leading international award winning projects and practice in the UK, Europe, the USA, and Australia. A focus on design quality and strategic thinking has lead to a strength in projects that lie at the intersection of public life, sustainable design, and technical craftmanship.Through his career, Alex has work on a raft of high profile and environmentally sensitive projects including the Rolls Royce Manufacturing Plant & Headquarters, the Battersea Power Station Redevelopment, the Zürich Airport A500 Airside Centre, the Experimental Media and Performing Arts Centre for the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in New York, and Southern Cross Station in Melbourne.With his passion for sustainability, Alex has present for the Green Building Council at events in Singapore, Sydney and Melbourne.In 2018, Alex started Aeta Studio to provide the focused personal design service of a small architectural firm, while applying the experience, strategic thinking and quality processes of a large international practice.

  • Director

    • Jul 2018 - Present

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  HDR

  • Sydney, Australia

  • Director

    • Apr 2015 - Jul 2018
    • Sydney, Australia

    HDR | Rice Daubney is a creative firm for architecture, planning and design with experience spanning over 39 years. Our continued growth sees us becoming one of the leading architecture practices within Australia and South East Asia as part of the HDR global corporation. We work across a variety of large scale projects within the different sectors of the business: Commercial, Retail + Mixed Use, Health, Research + Science and Defence currently totalling over $8 Billion.We see every project as a new challenge, based upon client drivers, urban context and community. Our design process allows us to bring together art, technology, sustainability and commerce. We consistently challenge ideas and seek opportunities through a collaborative approach within our team and with clients to ensure the best architectural outcome is achieved for its place.

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  Woods Bagot

  • Sydney

  • Senior Design Leader

    • Apr 2014 - Apr 2015
    • Sydney

    As Design Leader in Woods Bagot’s Sydney studio, Alex had a diverse design focused responsibility for leading education, urban design and masterplanning, health and environmentally strategic design projects. The diverse project portfolio has emerged from a strength in strategic design, providing value to complex projects and unique briefs. Joining Woods Bagot in 2014, Alex took on a scope of work across education, health, urban design, mixed use and transport.

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  Grimshaw

  • Associate Director

    • 2000 - Mar 2014

    As an Associate Director in Grimshaw's Sydney studio, Alex took responsibility for leading the Australian practice's education, urban design and masterplanning, and environmentally strategic design projects. His focus was on complex and unique briefs, sites, or designs, a role he naturally progressed into throughout his fourteen year career with Grimshaw. Alex has worked in Grimshaw's London, Berlin, Melbourne and Sydney offices on multi-award winning international projects.Alex joined Grimshaw's London office in 2000 and became one of the practice's most progressive designers. Whilst in London, Alex worked on a number of high profile and environmentally sensitive projects throughout the UK, Europe, and the USA, including the Rolls Royce Manufacturing Plant & Headquarters, the Battersea Power Station Redevelopment, the Zürich Airport A500 Airside Centre, and the Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center for the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in New York. In 2003 Alex returned to Australia to work on the design and delivery of Southern Cross Railway Station in Melbourne. Since then, Alex was promoted to Associate Director of the practice and championed the emerging urban and environmental infrastructure sectors, as well as leading education and specialist design projects.

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  Matovic Partnership

  • Architect Assistant

    • 1994 - 1996