Alex Stark

is an internationally recognized consultant, advisor, and teacher on issues of creativity, efficiency, and healing. A graduate of the Yale University School of Architecture, he is a practitioner of Feng Shui and oriental geomancy and astrology. As such, he advises on issues of design and placement for homes, businesses, and corporations as well as on personal and institutional transformation.
A native of Peru, he is also a student of shamanism, an ancient tradition which is based in reverence to the Earth and reciprocity between all living beings. For thousands of years shamanism has developed techniques for seeing into the deeper truth hidden within the worlds of matter and idea. It therefore is a powerful tool for creating balance, integration, and health.

Alex Stark was born in Peru and has spent most of his life in the United States. He was educated at the American School of Lima, at Yale College, and Yale University School of Architecture. He has studied architecture with George Kubler, Charles Moore, James Stirling, and Vincent Scully. He has pursued feng shui and geomancy under Bill Spear, Raphael Simmons, Roger Green, R.D. Chin, Karen Kingston, Richard Creightmore, and Marko Pogacnik. He has apprenticed in shamanism under Michael Harner, Oscar Miro-Quesada, and Don Juan Nunez del Prado.

Alex is a recipient of a Ford Foundation scholarship for cross-cultural studies and was named Scholar of the House by Yale University for his studies on XVIc. architecture in Peru. He has been a consultant to the United Nations Development Program on issues of urban and regional planning. He is currently evaluating contemporary architectural, planning, and business practices from the perspective of Feng Shui, Geomancy and Shamanism.

Alex's work has been featured on CNN, PBS, The New York Times, Craine's, New York Magazine, and others. His feng shui design work has merited a citation by the Boston Society of Architects. Alex has taught workshops in New York, where he lives, as well as in Argentina, Holland, and England. He has lectured at Roger Williams University in Rhode Island, at Yale University, at the Metropolitan Institute of Design in Plainview, New York, at the Feng Shui International Network in London, the European School of Feng Shui in Amsterdam, and the American Medical Holistic Association in Toronto.

Alex has a private counseling practice in New York City. He is married and has one daughter. His clients include: Hyatt Corporation, Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, Conde Nast, Colombian Coffee Federation, Swarovski Crystals, Beth Israel Hospital, Beth Abraham Hospital Group, Continuum Center for Health & Healing, Bellevue Hospital, Corcoran Realty, and many others.