Alexander Pollard
b. 1998
b. 1998
Alexander is a British architect and design researcher whose practice examines the human interface with space to discover new sensibilities and vocabularies within architecture.
He holds an MA from the Royal College of Art (RIBA pt. 2), with professional experience across Europe. He has previously studied and conducted research in Australia and pursued self-directed study in Japan.
Something & Associates brand his freelance practice, through which he has delivered projects in Italy and Canada, winning and being shortlisted in international competitions. In former roles, his clients include the Bauhaus Museum Dessau, La Biennale di Venezia, and the City of Berlin.
He holds an MA from the Royal College of Art (RIBA pt. 2), with professional experience across Europe. He has previously studied and conducted research in Australia and pursued self-directed study in Japan.
Something & Associates brand his freelance practice, through which he has delivered projects in Italy and Canada, winning and being shortlisted in international competitions. In former roles, his clients include the Bauhaus Museum Dessau, La Biennale di Venezia, and the City of Berlin.
About my work
Second nature
Second nature
In my projects, I aim to create the intrinsic: environments that feel immediately familiar, yet unfold into new realities. A recurring thread is the orchestration of phenomena - environmental, climatic, or psychological - to reframe how the familiar is perceived. This gives rise to a ‘Second Nature’ in two senses: an embodied intuition that guides action, and a renewed environment that opens fresh possibilities for encounter and inhabitation.
We make sense of the world through cues we rarely name - signals that guide our behaviour long before we recognise them. Observing human interactions with space, I use a lens informed by spatial cognition to structure design responses that generate new vocabularies for archiecture.
Contemporary built forms establish a compelling stage, yet offer little in terms of narrative. The missing element is reciprocity: spaces that respond to people as much as people respond to them. To regain relevance, architecture must cultivate the conditions for community, memory, and belonging.
Second Nature frames architecture like a park: a field of relational potential, where meaning emerges through the interpretations it accommodates. In these moments of appropriation, users quietly reclaim agency. My work aspires to dissolve into everyday life, noticed only through the ways it shapes routine, gesture, and the unfolding of experience.
Education
Royal College of Art
MA Architetcure
London, United Kingdom
2023-2025
USI Mendrisio
SwissSummerSchool03
Ticino, Switzerland
2022
Abedian School of Architecture
Bachelor of Architecture
Queensland, Australia
2018-2021
MA Architetcure
London, United Kingdom
2023-2025
USI Mendrisio
SwissSummerSchool03
Ticino, Switzerland
2022
Abedian School of Architecture
Bachelor of Architecture
Queensland, Australia
2018-2021
Employment
Something & Associates
Worldwide
2023 -
Collaborations & Freelance
Meyer-Grohbrügge
Berlin, Germany
2022
Architectural Design
Realities:United
Berlin, Germany
2022
Architectural Design
Bond University
Queensland, Australia
2021
Research Assitant
Worldwide
2023 -
Collaborations & Freelance
Meyer-Grohbrügge
Berlin, Germany
2022
Architectural Design
Realities:United
Berlin, Germany
2022
Architectural Design
Bond University
Queensland, Australia
2021
Research Assitant
Press
NOIA Magazine
Divisare
Area Arch
Elle Italia
Global News (ca)
Divisare
Area Arch
Elle Italia
Global News (ca)
Teaching
University of Manitoba
Bond University
Bond University
Ran Akatsu, 2018