Ed Pearce graduated from the University of Nottingham in BArch Architecture with First Class Honours and was awarded the Hadfield Cawkwell Davidson prize for Management and Practice in 2007. He went on to complete his Part I at HUT Architecture in London, before graduating from the Architectural Association Diploma in 2011. Ed was awarded a High Pass in Fifth Year Technical Studies for his proposal The Toxic Garden - an innovative infrastructure, parasitically leaching from the existing industrial facilities of Port Hedland in Western Australia. Ed is part of the Unknown Fields Diploma 6 unit at the Architectural Association and is current in the 2011 Projects Review Exhibition.