Elly Ward has worked in the field of architecture as a designer, illustrator, researcher and practice manager for over nine years. Elly also writes, teaches and talks about architecture and curates architectural events and exhibitions.  Her work has been published in several architectural publications and exhibited at several venues.

Combining political commentary with playful narrative and delivering it in a delightfully lighthearted way, Elly’s work uses humour and a cartoonish representational style to discuss societal issues in a way that is perhaps more effective than mere polemic.  In March this year, Elly was invited to guest edit a special edition of the RIBA Journal along with several other young practitioners who were collectively described as “some of the most interesting emerging talent in and around architecture today”.  Her postgraduate project Back To Morality – a proposal for a moral rehabilitation ‘camp’ in the form of a folly-filled allegorical garden, illustrated inside a children’s architectural storybook - was published in the same issue. 

Recently completing her postgraduate architecture studies at the Royal College of Art, Elly previously graduated from London Metropolitan University with a First Class degree in architecture, where she also won the Prize for Best Portfolio and a nomination for the RIBA President’s Bronze Medal. Elly is currently working part-time for FAT Architecture and on a number of freelance projects, and has previously worked or collaborated with several other notable architectural practices including AOC, dRMM and Muf.