Alex is interested in the possibilities for critical inquiry through creative practice, exploring the possibilities for projects to negotiate between research-led design and historical/theoretical archaeologies constituted through traditional scholarship. Alex teaches across the ESALA programme, contributing to courses in design studio, architectural theory, and pre-honours dissertation.

Alex's research involves enquiry into the technics of architectural practice, reading the methods, tools and habitual tendencies adopted by the discipline according to their implications for constituent material, social, productive and ecological conditions.

Negotiating across registers of making, writing and programming, they adopt diverse media including clay, text, silicon and code to critique contemporary modes of computational programming and modelling through production of dialogical alternatives. Interested in nuanced means to question practices of naming, the digital, and systematized modes of codification, their research fabricates architectural media and apparatus through ideological and material interchange. Presently Alex is exploring how artefacts constructed by entangled linear texts and procedural scripts could offer situated means to record, remember and imagine, with further strands in an oblique critique of digital through spatialised and ideographic modes of writing liminal to textuality and imagery.

Alex's doctoral thesis, titled 'A glitch in the architect's blue veil: writing a non-computational model of site', speculated on the "collapse" of the programming code into the less-determinate nature of writing. Working at a contested site of demolition, a situated critique of the over-determinate qualities of digital platforms was constructed through a series of manoeuvres that realised alternative and materialised modes of computation. The model and medium carried the technical schematics of both the procedural algorithms and coded objects comprising contemporary computational programming, co-constituting them with the deferred, textual character of writing, which remains contingent to the reader and is effectively rewritten through interpretation. The constructed medium sought to recompose the compulsive cognitive modes of the contemporary BIM-Architect, turning them toward deeper attentional forms and practices of care co-produced by the traces of gestures, actions and intentions left by others at the site, alongside material processes of decay and demolition.