He is founder and director of Alex Graef Associated Architects, a practice driven by high design ambition combined with a strong ethos of technical innovation and collaboration across disciplines. As author of and academic responsible for the development and validation of new courses and curricula, Alex has been deeply immersed in the contemporary conversation about the role of technology teaching in the context of new architectural tool sets and a changing profession in general. He wrote, set up and directed new courses at the Lincoln School of Architecture and led a ‘Makers’ research group with focus on design research and the role of digital and analogue production and manufacturing techniques in architectural design processes.