Alex Graef is a qualified and ARB registered architect, director of Alex Graef Associated Architects Ltd, unit leader of Diploma Studio 5 at London Southbank University and Visiting Professor at the American University Beirut. His work aims to create and exploit a symbiotic relationship between architectural practice, teaching and independent research. As a result, his work displays a collaborative ethos, strives for innovation or application of current technologies in design and production processes, and the pursuit of context and meaning in a world of constant technological innovation and specialisation.