Alex Smith

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• MA Degree

  School

  School of Architecture

  Programme

  MA Architecture, 2009

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• ADS4: Hero

  Flirting with Disaster

  Can our disproportionate fear of disaster be used as a tool to increase community cohesion and become a catalyst for urban regeneration?

  What defines city living for a paranoid generation bombarded by iconic images of disaster? Inspired by American studies where, post 9/11, 80% of adults said that they “had an increased appreciation for their families”, while others suddenly had the urge for intimate contact leading to “Terror Sex”, a new form of speculative housing emerges in Westminster to cater for our everyday fears. Staged re-enactments prepare residents for statistically unlikely disasters, lucky escapes or heroic failures, whilst a landscape of antibacterial gardens fortify an immune system in fear of dirty bombs.

• Degrees

• BA (Hons) Architecture (First class), Leeds Metropolitan University, 2006

• Experience

• Architectural Assistant, Hawkins\Brown, London, 2006–8; Internship, JDS Architects (Formerly PLOT), Copenhagen, Denmark, 2006; Architectural Assistant, Architects Design Partnership, Birmingham, 2004–5

• Exhibitions

• London Festival of Architecture, Routemaster Bus, Exhibition Road, London, 2008; Thinking Inside the Box: Workshop for the London Festival of Architecture, Royal College of Art, 2008; Yard Screenings, Urban Salon, London, 2008; The Future of the Modern World, The Bunker Gallery, Leeds, 2006

• Awards

• Hays Architecture Prize for Best Student Project, 2006