Education
Exley earned a Bachelor of Arts in Architectural Studies with first-class honours from Newcastle University in 1985 and a Master of Architecture from the University of Pennsylvania in 1990.
Exley earned a Bachelor of Arts in Architectural Studies with first-class honours from Newcastle University in 1985 and a Master of Architecture from the University of Pennsylvania in 1990.
Exley’s projects include the DuPage Children’s Museum, the House in the Woods, a 21,000-square-foot (1,950m2) Ronald McDonald House in Oak Lawn, Illinois, the Exploration Station children"s museum and the Young at Art Museum"s exhibits and galleries in Davie, Florida. Prior to founding his own firm in 1994, he worked for Skidmore, Owings & Merrill in Chicago and London and with Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates in Philadelphia. Architecture Is Fun’s work has been exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago, the Chicago Architecture Foundation and the International Cooperation Administration in Philadelphia.
In 2012, Exley was named President of American Institute of Architects Chicago for the year 2013.
In 1996 Exley was the recipient of the American Institute of Architects Chicago Young Architect Award and in 2003 received the American Institute of Architects Illinois Excellence in Education Award. In 2012, with his partner and wife, Sharon Exley, he was awarded the Benjamin Moore HUE Award for exceptional use of color in commercial architecture.
