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• Alan Dempsey

  

  Alan is founding director of NEX, and in 2008 was selected by the British Council as one of the six most significant Design Entrepreneurs in the UK.
  
  He is a chartered architect in the UK and has previously worked with Future Systems, OCEAN and Homa Farjadi.  His experience in leading the design and construction of projects covers multiple sectors including infrastructure, commercial offices, retail, residential, cultural and public buildings.
  
  Alan studied at the Dublin Institute of Technology, Universidad de los Andes, Bogota and the Design Research Lab at the Architectural Association in London, where he graduated with a thesis distinction in 2002. He was a Unit Tutor at the AA until 2005, and is currently a Director of the FAB Research Cluster and the Independent’s Group at the AA, which facilitate research into the use of computational design and fabrication to enable innovative forms of design practice. In this academic work he has shown a commitment to research and inquiry into how emerging technologies can redefine the future of our discipline and strengthen the role of the architect in future practice.
  
  Alan’s work has been widely published in the in the US, Europe and Asia, and was selected to represent the UK at the Beijing Architecture Biennale in 2008. He is the editor of two forthcoming books to be published by the AA press in 2010: Nine problems in the form of a pavilion, which documents his first completed project; and Designing Fabrication which presents the work of the first two years of the AA|FAB Awards. He has been invited to speak about his work internationally, most notably at the ETH in Zurich, Central Academy of Fine Art in Beijing and the NAI in Rotterdam. His completed work as received a number of awards including a LEAF award for Spencer Dock Bridge, and a D&AD pencil for the [C]space DRL10 Pavilion.
  
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