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  • Comment: Note: there is already an Alex Ely article (about a US/Brazilian footballer). If this article is eventually approved for creation, it will need a revised title - perhaps "Alex Ely (architect)". Paul W (talk) 17:06, 22 January 2024 (UTC)
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Academic with interest in Architecture, Architects and the built environment

Alex Ely (Architect)
RIBA
Born
Alexander David Ely

1972 (1972)
Southampton, England
Alma materRoyal College of Art
OccupationArchitect
PracticeMæ
BuildingsThe John Morden Centre (London), Sands End Arts & Community Centre (London), Brentford Lock West (London), Agar Grove Estate (London)

Alexander David Ely, RIBA, (born 27 May 1972) is a British architect and town planner based in London. He founded the London-based architectural practice, Mae, in 2001, and has designed public housing and social infrastructure projects and masterplanned major urban regeneration projects which have won several RIBA Awards. In 2023, a Mae-designed project at Morden College in Blackheath, London won the Stirling Prize.

Career

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Ely studied at the University of Nottingham, graduating in 1993, and the Royal College of Art, receiving an MA in 1996.[1]

In 2001, he founded the London-based architectural practice, Mae.[2][3][a] Ely has designed public housing[6] and social infrastructure projects and masterplanned major urban regeneration projects which have won several RIBA Awards.

Ely was Head of Sustainable Communities at the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment from 2002 to 2005.[7]

Between 2009 and 2021, Ely was a senior lecturer at London Metropolitan University.[8]

He was principal author of the Mayor of London’s ‘London Housing Design Guide’, which set new space standards for housing in 2010.[9] The standards went on to inform the nationally described space standards introduced by the UK government in 2015. Between 2017 and 2021, Ely was a Mayor’s Design Advocate, part of a panel of 42 built environment specialists advising the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan.[10]

In 2023, a Mae-designed project, the John Morden Centre, at Morden College in Blackheath, London won the RIBA Stirling Prize.[11][12][13] Ely was subsequently on the jury for the 2024 RIBA Stirling Prize [14]

Events

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He has lectured internationally and presented at events including:

  • Architects.RF in Moscow (2014)[15]
  • ArkDes Stockholm (2018)[16]
  • Milan Architecture Foundation (2018)[17]
  • the Moscow Urban Forum 2019[18]
  • Oslo Architecture Triennale (2019)[19]
  • Politecnico di Milano ‘Housing regeneration in EU: An Opportunity for Architecture and Architects’ (2019)[20]
  • ‘Domestic Commons’ and ‘Public Architecture - Future for Europe’ at Moscow’s Schusev State Museum of Architecture (2020)[21]
  • Melbourne School of Design ‘From Here; For Now’ (2020)[22]
  • the Tbilisi Architecture Biennial (2020)[23]
  • the Architecture Foundation and Barbican's series 'Architecture on Stage' (2022)[24]

Projects

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Publications

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  • Towards a Resilient Architecture, Quart Publishers ISBN 9783037612750[31]
  • The Home Buyer’s Guide: what to look and ask for when buying a new home, Black Dog Publishing, London, ISBN 1-904772-09-9[32]
  • Places for Strangers, Park Books, Zurich, ISBN 978-3-906027-40-1[33]
  • The London Housing Design Guide[34]

He also contributed to ‘Defining Contemporary Professionalism: For Architects in Practice and Education’ (RIBA Publications), edited by Alan Jones and Rob Hyde.ISBN 9781859468470.[35]

Notes

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  1. ^ Mae LLP was incorporated in May 2001, and dissolved in October 2023;[4] Mae Architects Ltd was incorporated in September 2014.[5]

References

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  1. ^ a b Flatman, Ben. "Alex Ely: 'Architecture is so central to our culture - it's a pity it doesn't seem to gain the traction it deserves'". Building Design. Assemble media group. Retrieved 13 February 2024.
  2. ^ "Alex Ely". Mae. Retrieved 22 January 2024.
  3. ^ "Tag: #WhyIWentIntoArchitecture". Museum of Architecture. 25 April 2021. Retrieved 22 January 2024.
  4. ^ "MAE LLP - Company number OC300183". Companies House. Retrieved 22 January 2024.
  5. ^ "MAE Architects Limited - Company number 09240935". Companies House. Retrieved 22 January 2024.
  6. ^ Booth, Rob. "Derelict site on London's Billionaire's Row 'has space for 300 homes'". The Guardian. Retrieved 20 November 2023.
  7. ^ Ben, Flatman (19 February 2024). "Focus: Alex Ely". Assemble Media Group. Building. Retrieved 19 February 2024.
  8. ^ "Unit5: A Place of Type". London Metropolitan University. Retrieved 21 January 2024..
  9. ^ Bishop, Peter (10 December 2020). Design for London (PDF). UCL Press. ISBN 978-1-78735-894-2.
  10. ^ "Good Growth by Design" (PDF). London.gov.uk. GLA. Retrieved 25 August 2020.
  11. ^ Chi-Santorelli, Leisha. "Riba Stirling Prize: London retirement home wins top architecture award". BBC. Retrieved 19 October 2023.
  12. ^ Waite, Richard (20 October 2023). "Stirling Prize interview: 'This project should be the norm not the exception'". Architects' Journal. Retrieved 22 January 2024.
  13. ^ Simpson, Veronica. "Alex Ely-Interview". Studio International. Studio International. Retrieved 10 April 2024.
  14. ^ RIBA. "Meet the RIBA Stirling Jury". RIBA. Retrieved 13 September 2024.
  15. ^ Strelka Institute for Media, Architecture and Design. "Rethinking Europe. European Experience in the City Development". Fundació Mies van der Rohe. Retrieved 30 June 2014.
  16. ^ ArkDes. "TRH The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge visited ArkDes, Sweden's national centre for architecture and design". ArkDes. Retrieved 2 February 2018.
  17. ^ "Londonon in Milan". Ordine Architetti Milano. Retrieved 7 May 2018.
  18. ^ Romashkevich, Anatasia (18 April 2019). "Renovation in English: Architects Alex Ely talks about the development of the modern city". AD Magazine. Condé Nast. Retrieved 18 April 2019.
  19. ^ Londonon. "Degrowth Degustation" (PDF). Londonon. Retrieved 5 July 2019.
  20. ^ "Seminar:Housing Regeneration in Europe An Opportunity for Architecture and Architects". 5 November 2019., Polytecnico Milano. Retrieved 22 January 2024.
  21. ^ ECC. "Public Architecture for Europe Symposium" (PDF). European Cultural Centre Italy. Retrieved 31 January 2020.
  22. ^ Colby Vexler, Anna Tonkin, Eric Ye, and Guillermo Fernández-Abascal, with Justin Clemens and Alan Pert. "From Here; For Now". Melbourne School of Design. Retrieved 17 June 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  23. ^ Camille Filbien (The Netherlands), Benjamin Wells, Francis Naydler and Jacob Sturdy (UK). "Domestic Commons". Tbilisi Architecture Biennial. Retrieved 8 November 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  24. ^ "Architecture on Stage: Mae Architects". Architecture Foundation. Archived from the original on 22 November 2023. Retrieved 22 January 2024.
  25. ^ "John Morden Centre". RIBA. Retrieved 22 January 2024.
  26. ^ Wainwright, Oliver. "Managers and leaders only: Britain's best new building is a retirement home with entry requirements". The Guardian. Retrieved 19 October 2023.
  27. ^ "RIBA Stirling Prize 2022". RIBA. Retrieved 22 January 2024.
  28. ^ Wainwright, Oliver. "How social housing in Manchester has reinvented the back-to-back". The Guardian. Retrieved 18 December 2012.
  29. ^ Wainwright, Oliver. "Out of the box: councils try innovative projects to provide social housing". The Guardian. Retrieved 10 February 2017.
  30. ^ Wainwright, Oliver. "Council housing: it's back, it's booming – and this time it's beautiful". The Guardian. Retrieved 20 June 2019.
  31. ^ Ely, Alex (2022). Towards a resilient architecture. Quart. ISBN 9783037612750.
  32. ^ Ely, Alex (2004). The Homes Buyers Guide: what to look and ask for when buying a new home. Black Dog Publishing. ISBN 1-904772-09-9.
  33. ^ Ely, Alex (2004). Places for Strangers. Park Books. ISBN 1-904772-09-9.
  34. ^ London Housing Design Guide (PDF).
  35. ^ Jones, Alan (2019). Defining Contemporary Professionalism For Architects in Practice and Education. Routledge. ISBN 9781859468470.
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