Alex Ward

Alex Ward is an architect with forty-five years experience designing award-winning projects in the United States, Japan, China, Britain and Israel. His broad project background includes everything from airport terminals to churches, housing to high-rise office buildings.
Alex has had a life-long interest in buildings, first whetted by watching the construction of Louis Kahn’s monumental Exeter Academy library in 1970. His first professional experience, working for Sir Denys Lasdun in London, designing the Hurva Synagogue in Jerusalem, further cemented his passion for the profession.

As a young designer and then associate principal at Kohn Pedersen Fox in New York, Alex had the opportunity to help design high-rise office buildings across the US and abroad, including the National AIA award-winning 333 Wacker Drive in Chicago and Procter and Gamble’s headquarters in Cincinnati. More recent projects have included a reptile house for the Los Angeles Zoo, a theater arts building for Santa Monica College, a major renovation of the Tom Bradley International Terminal in Los Angeles, and the city of Burbank’s Community Services building, awarded LEED Gold status.

Alex holds an AB degree in Art History from Princeton University and a Masters in Architecture from Harvard’s Graduate School of Design. He has taught and lectured in California, Rhode Island, Missouri, Florida, Texas and elsewhere. Alex promotes environmentally responsible design and has taught and volunteered for the National Audubon Society. He currently serves on the Advisory Board of the Friends of the Los Angeles River. He has designed a number of sets for the Heidi Duckler Dance company in Los Angeles. His research on the origins of the English landscape garden is in the permanent collection of the British Museum. He lives in Santa Monica, California.