Dr Alex Selenitsch graduated as an architect in 1969. Alex has made a significant contribution to art and design education, teaching architectural design, theory and history at Deakin University, RMIT and The University of Melbourne, where he now teaches architectural design.
Alex’s PhD is on narrative descriptions of architecture. He writes essays and criticism on architectural design, sculpture, painting and literature. His essay 'The Bell Mandala' appears in The Life Work of Guilford Bell, Architect 1912–92. He was the guest editor for the June 1999 issue of Imprint, the journal of the Print Council of Australia, on the theme of artists' books. He also makes and exhibits sculpture and furniture, sometimes in collaboration with Hamish Hill. He is a member of the Public Art Committee of the Melbourne City Council.
Alex appears in the creative cowboy film The artists lunch (DVD 2 in the John Wolseley Art Resources Pack). In 2005 he contributed to the exhibition Ware & Tear exhibiting works which included Salvation/Curse and Weeds. About these works Alex says;
“Weeds are defined by custom and legislation, not through the intrinsic qualities of the plant. A weed in one place is a desirable plant in another. Weeding purifies and tidies up. In the context of biodiversity it is a degrading action. In the context of human affairs, the action is political, with swings from one extreme to the other. One group of works uses the optional signs available on a computer keyboard to provide typed images of weeds, another group picks up silent or semi-silent signs as facilitators of the change from desirable to undesirable.

In the second film Alex talks about visual poetry and then the artists’ book and his passion for this multi-dimensional art form.