Tom Alexander

Director, UK & International at AUKETT SWANKE LIMITED

Tom is a highly innovative and collaborative architect and strategist, designing projects and creating new narratives across multiple sectors. He has also set up and directs the R+D activities. His experience spans over 20 years with a clear focus on the wellbeing of people and an environmental responsibility.

He has designed market changing master planning and architectural projects across education, industrial, workplace, residential, life sciences, retail, transportation and recreational typologies, and often mixed uses of these types that they call Hybrids. He has led the market in exploring and developing the blending of industrial buildings with living and working environments in London, the UK and internationally.

Tom’s open minded but highly rigorous approach enables fresh thinking and viable ideas to be explored and pursued, often challenging the accepted norms but always offering new ways of improving the natural and built environment for people and the climate.

He is a regular keynote speaker, panellist and roundtable guest, and a design media commentator including for The Economist and Reuters.

Tom has a keen relationship with architectural education, including support and juror roles at Loughborough University, and as an invited juror previously at the Bartlett UCL.

He is an expert member of the New London Architecture (NLA) Tall Building’s panel, and also the Chair of their Industrial and Logistics Expert Panel. He is a founder and trustee of the Higher Education Design Quality Forum, HEDQF.

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  • Director, UK & International

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