Alex holds a Master of Architecture and a Bachelor of Science in Architecture from the University of Michigan. She also has strong background in Critical Theory and History of Art from the University of Michigan.
Alex has worked in multiple architectural offices since 1999 and has previously taught architecture at the University of Michigan and Academy of Art University in San Francisco. She has been a guest critic at UC Berkeley CED, RPI, CCA, University of Michigan, Cranbrook Academy of Art and BAC. Her practice, agglab, a collaborative interdisciplinary design and research practice focused on competition architecture and design work, design installations, architectural publications and workshops. Agglab pursues experimental methodologies that are invested in the development and production of an array of affective architectural environments through generative architectural tectonic language, both formal and methodological, that is fluctuating between growth and regeneration through digital and analogue algorithmic techniques of design and fabrication. The work of agglab has been exhibited at: Future Fires, SOMArts Cultural Center, San Francisco Design week, LACDA and LA Electron Salon as well as Acadia Design Conference, Cranbrook Academy of Art Forum Gallery and the University of Michigan Taubman College of Architecture Liberty Annex Gallery.