Alex Shelly is an accomplished architect with comprehensive experience in design, planning, and construction management for projects located in Illinois, Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania, Washington DC, Australia and Germany. Additionally, Alex has managed and operated an in-house digital fabrication lab focused on the production of prototypes for advanced and experimental construction techniques. He has been an adjunct faculty member at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and an invited design critic at Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Illinois Institute of Technology, SAIC, University of Miami, Wentworth Institute of Technology, Boston Architectural College, and Northeastern University. His work has won numerous awards for design excellence and innovation. Alex is an NCARB Certified and a licensed architect in the State of New York.
Alex has a strong sense of formal aesthetics and is an astute observer of contextual nuances. His deep curiosity and enjoyment of research informs his great capacity for leading our “hands-on” iterative design process. The technical prowess and operational rigor that he brings to the practice enables DAAM to successfully translate progressive architectural concepts into built form. He leads the DAAM studio with a can-do attitude that is invaluable to our team. Alex’s encouragement of experimentation and diligent attention to detail consistently results in noteworthy projects that explore relationships between architectural design, contemporary technology, local resources and functional use.