Welcome to Mae

Founder Director Alex Ely will be giving a keynote lecture to kick-off the annual MArch Jury Week, which marks the culmination of six of the Taught Postgraduate Programmes. The talk will follow the Housing and Urbanism MArch jury at 6.30pm on Monday 6th January 2025. Titled Spatial systems for society the lecture will explore spatial systems at different scales, from the city as ecosystem to the cellular structure of the home as explored in the work of Mæ. The talk is available to view here.

We are pleased to be a founder member of 'Architects' Action for Affordable Housing'

A good home is the foundation everyone should enjoy, a human right that too many are living without. As architects we recognise the role we can play in helping to improve housing through design, planning and advocacy. We have come together to demand that the next government do better. We are calling for positive change that will take a collective effort to achieve. Please join our campaign. Follow the link below.

Our Director Alex Ely has been profiled in Building magazine and BD online. In an interview with Ben Flatman he explores the evolution and future of the practice, working at the scale of the city to the room. He reflects on his influences from education, from his time and the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment and on the role architects can have in civic society.

Founder Director Alex Ely has been interviewed for Studio International magazine.

Studio was first published in April 1893 under the title The Studio: An Illustrated Magazine of Fine and Applied Art. It rapidly established itself as one of the most successful fine art periodicals in the English-speaking world.

Among others, it featured the work of the illustrator Aubrey Beardsley and the architects Charles Rennie Mackintosh and CFA Voysey.

In the interview with Veronica Simpson, Alex explores the secret to making buildings that other architects admire and envy, but which are dedicated to the greater good.