Staff profiles
Alexi Marmot
Visiting professor, BArch, MArch, M.C.P., PhD, RAIA
Alexi Marmot is an internationally renowned authority on workplace evaluation and design, formulating property strategies that deliver better business. She specialises in offices, libraries, educational buildings and spaces for learning.
Alexi studied architecture and town planning at the University of Sydney and the University of California, Berkeley, and later worked as director of research and consultancy at DEGW. Her enthusiasm is understanding how people use space, how buildings operate in practice, and how to create buildings that really work for the people who inhabit them.
Alexi frequently speaks at conferences on space management and design for offices and educational buildings. She has co-authored two books on office planning - 'Understanding Offices: What every manager needs to know about office buildings' (Penguin) and 'Office Space Planning: Designing for tomorrow's workplace' (McGraw-Hill).
Alexi is also Professor of Facility and Environment Management in the Bartlett School of Graduate Studies, University College London, hence is uniquely placed to link academic research with practical outcomes. Selected as a CABE enabler in 2001, she has advised on the creation of many civic, cultural and medical buildings across the UK.
Over the past years, she was involved in various Centre activities including a joint bid with the Centre for Science Education and the Spaceworks project where she facilitated a range of meetings. She also chaired the first two Public Sector Networks Conferences.
