Episode 236: ASA founder Alex Symes on sustainability, winning awards and how design can help alleviate our housing woes

Alex Symes, the founder of ASA, picked up the Commercial Architecture - Small with Coconut Crab as well as th Single Dwelling -Alteration award at the 2024 Sustainability Awards with his Fun Haus adaptive Passive House reuse.

He also delivered the keynote speech at last year’s sustainability summit that was held on the same day.

 Away from those wins, Alex Symes founded his practice in 2014 with a mission to advance sustainable architecture. 

Alex combines a deep understanding and interest in building physics and sustainability best-practices to create buildings that are not only beautiful but contribute to stronger environmental outcomes overall.  

So, what will be driving residential design in 2025?