Elyse Agnello, AIA, NCARB / Principal

Elyse Agnello has been practicing architecture in various forms for over a decade. She has a diverse professional background that spans from architectural design and construction to cultural event production. Throughout her career, she has successfully designed, fabricated, and managed projects of varying scale and type in Illinois, California, Spain, Germany and the UK. She has been an invited design critic at the Illinois Institute of Technology, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and the University of Illinois at Chicago. Ms. Agnello is also a CoFounder of Guild Row and the Design Principal for Platform Managers, a real estate development and venture management firm. She is NCARB Certified and a licensed architect in the State of New York, New Jersey, and Illinois.

Elyse brings a unique balance of design sensibility and pragmatic tact to the practice. She is skilled at composing material palettes, orchestrating unique spatial details, building team consensus, and synthesizing varied project aspirations into architectural realities. Her entrepreneurial endeavors and real estate development experience over the past 5 years has permeated her architectural practice and piqued her ongoing interest in the art of crafting meaningful spaces for people to engage one another and be together in. Elyse’s core strength is in collaboratively cultivating new ideas and fostering them into real-world places and things.

Her favorite tools are her tiny iPhone & 6” steel scale.

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Stats
Master of Architecture, Harvard University Graduate School of Design
Post-Graduate Diploma with Distinction, The Architectural Association Interprofessional Studio
Bachelor of Science in Architecture, The University of Michigan

Registrations & Memberships
Licensed Architect, State of NY, IL & NJ
NCARB Certified, Nat’l Council of Architectural Registration Boards
American Institute of Architects
Placemaking Leadership Council

Alex Shelly, AIA, NCARB / Principal

Alex Shelly is an accomplished architect with comprehensive experience in design, planning, and construction management for projects located in Illinois, Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania, Washington DC, Australia and Germany. Additionally, Alex has managed and operated an in-house digital fabrication lab focused on the production of prototypes for advanced and experimental construction techniques. He has been an adjunct faculty member at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and an invited design critic at Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Illinois Institute of Technology, SAIC, University of Miami, Wentworth Institute of Technology, Boston Architectural College, and Northeastern University. His work has won numerous awards for design excellence and innovation. Alex is an NCARB Certified and a licensed architect in the State of New York.

Alex has a strong sense of formal aesthetics and is an astute observer of contextual nuances. His deep curiosity and enjoyment of research informs his great capacity for leading our “hands-on” iterative design process. The technical prowess and operational rigor that he brings to the practice enables DAAM to successfully translate progressive architectural concepts into built form. He leads the DAAM studio with a can-do attitude that is invaluable to our team. Alex’s encouragement of experimentation and diligent attention to detail consistently results in noteworthy projects that explore relationships between architectural design, contemporary technology, local resources and functional use.

His favorite tools are his Moleskine sketchbook, 3D printer & utility knife.

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Stats
Master of Architecture, Harvard University Graduate School of Design
Bachelor of Arts in Architecture with Highest Honors, Lehigh University

Registrations & Memberships
Licensed Architect, State of NY
NCARB Certified, Nat’l Council of Architectural Registration Boards
American Institute of Architects
Boston Society of Architects

The DAAM Team - Past & Present

Nash Kennedy, Ella Edelstein, Martin Majkrak, Jonathan Vitale, Andrew Manto, Ryan Treacy, Gabriel Bollag, Angelica Gonzalez, Tanil Raif, Jackson Conlon, Yuyi Zhou, Ethan Davis, Owen Lasko