Alex Krieger, FAIA, is Professor in Practice of Urban Design at the GSD, where he was Chair of the Department of Urban Planning and Design from 1998 to 2004. He currently teaches the Urban Design Proseminar and the studio: Reconnecting City & River: Vienna, Austria & the Danube. In previous semsters he has taught the seminar The Regional City: Values and Ethics in Contemporary Urbanism, the Detroit Research Seminar, the Detroit Studio, and the studio Planning in Paradise: Urban Redevelopment - Honolulu, Hawaii.

He is a founding principal of Chan Krieger Sieniewicz. His recent work includes urban design and planning projects in Boston, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Des Moines, Louisville, Minneapolis, Mt. Lebanon, Pittsburgh, Providence, Washington, D.C., and Worcester. Other projects include: master plans for Boston's Seaport District and City Hall Plaza; campus plans for Brandeis University, Knox College, and Rhode Island School of Design; the Discovery Museum in Bridgeport; the Carl J. Shapiro Clinical Care Center for Beth Israel Hospital in Boston; and an athletic facility for the Buckingham Browne & Nichols School in Cambridge. The firm's work has received prizes in eight national competitions, two Progressive Architecture awards and thirteen AIA awards.

An authority on the evolution of urban settlements, Krieger's publications include: Planning in Paradise: Urban Redevelopment Honolulu Hawaii (2003), Mapping Boston (1999), Design Concepts for Nippon-Daira and its Region (1993), Towns and Town Making Principles (1991), A Design Primer for Cities and Towns (1990), The Architecture of Kallmann, McKinnell & Wood (1988), Past Futures: Two Centuries of Imagining Boston (1985), and essays for various architecture, design, and planning periodicals. He is a contributing editor for Architecture magazine.

Krieger has served as director of the National Endowment for the Arts Mayors' Institute on City Design (1995-1998); commissioner on the Boston Civic Design Commission (1988-97); design review architect for the Providence Capital Center Commission (1991-98); director of the National Leadership Institute for Planning Direction (1998-present); and the vice president of the New England Holocaust Memorial Committee (1989-98) during which Boston's award-winning memorial was planned, designed and dedicated.