Alexander Hartray

Adjunct Assistant Professor

ahartray@uic.edu

Alexander Hartray is a designer and consultant with experience ranging from public and private, urban and landscape planning to office, commercial and residential projects. His work is collaborative, greatly varied in scale and often involving adaptive reuse, urban infill and restoration. Projects are undertaken based on research and societal value, client involvement, and available resources.

Alexander's undergraduate studies at Washington University combined required architecture courses with classes as disparate as language, sculpture, film, solar energy and modern dance. Two years of architectural apprenticeship and travel preceded studies at the Harvard Graduate School of Design.

Graduation was followed by intense collaborative experience with offices in Spain, Italy, France and the US along with continued independent study, travel and work. Projects and competitions generally have been very context specific, urban, high density and mixed use.

Alexander's research and design activities were joined with teaching in 1999. He was part of a four year team effort to integrate the traditional Illinois Institute of Technology core curriculum with concepts of program, context, sustainability and means of contemporary construction. In 2003 he became a member of the UIC architecture faculty as design studio instructor and guide and coordinator for parts of the Barcelona studio's travels.