architect and artist working with buildings, spaces, installations, video and other immersive media and environments

Alex Haw is an architect and artist operating at the intersection of design, research, art and the urban environment. He runs atmos, a collaborative experimental practice which produces a range of architecture and events including private houses and public buildings, videos, installations and larger public commissions.

Current projects include THE CLOUD, a proposal for a vast immersive experience of the global digital sublime, with MIT; Live Portrait, a video commission for FACT working with ARUP; Lumiskin, a generative digital-space installation for ISEA09 (with dr.mo); Weather Projection, a real-time immersion in the world’s sunrises and cloud-cover as they trigger across the world (for Vivid, Sydney); Incel, a live spatial immersion in the Deutsche Borse transactions (for the luminale); and a design study of future architecture for the FutureLab.

LightHive, a 3d-cctv transmutation of the Architectural Association into light, was highly commended at the FX and Lighting Design awards; Work/Space/Ply/Time, a CNC rapid-assembly pavilion, won the Urbantine competition and toured China with British Council funding.

Alex studied at the Bartlett (UCL) and Princeton on a Fulbright, worked for Diller+Scofidio, Rogers and Grimshaw, and has taught design studios at the AA, Cambridge and TU Vienna.

He writes for a wide number of magazines and journals and is a contributing editor to WIRED uk.

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