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TC 163 – Alison Brooks Architects: Architecture 2004 – 2024
Buy the Book
Our new practice monograph, Alison Brooks Architects: Architecture 2004–2024, is out now. Join us for the official book launch at the Architectural Association Bookshop in London on March 5, 2025.
Published by international architectural magazine, TC Cuadernos, this dual English and Spanish edition (TC 163) captures two decades of our work. The 386-page monograph charts 18 built works completed in the past 20 years, extensively documented with descriptive texts, photographs, drawings and emblematic construction details that illuminate each project’s tectonic and conceptual intent.
The portfolio showcases Alison Brooks Architects’ ethos, demonstrating how the practice fuses an endlessly inventive architectural imagination with a profound sensitivity to the diverse cultural and natural histories that form each project’s provenance.
Contributors
Introduction by Ricardo Meri de la Maza, ‘On the Essence of Alison Brooks’ Architecture’
Interview between Jose Maria de Lapuerta with Alison Brooks
Alison Brooks Architects
Year
2024
Publisher
TC Cuadernos
English, Spanish
386 Pages, Paperback
ISBN: 978-84-17753-60-3
Also available for purchase at your local independent bookstore.
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Constructing Realities Lecture Series at UCL East Marshgate
2.10.2025, London, UK
Michael Mueller, Director at Alison Brooks Architects, presented ‘Making Architecture in Context’ as part of the Constructing Realities Lecture Series at UCL East Marshgate, kicking off the first studio for MEng Engineering and Architectural Design students.
Michael Mueller, Director at Alison Brooks Architects, presented ‘Making Architecture in Context’ as part of the Constructing Realities Lecture Series at UCL East Marshgate, kicking off the first studio for MEng Engineering and Architectural Design students.
Hosted by The Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment and supported by the student society SEAD, the Constructing Realities series invites speakers to explore the design and making of our built environment, examining how invention, creativity, collaboration, and technology are shaping the future of the spaces we live in.
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Join Our Expanding Studio
We are looking for Part 2 Architectural Assistants and Architects to join our London studio and work on exciting projects across the UK and internationally.
We are looking for Part 2 Architectural Assistants and Architects to join our London studio and work on exciting projects across the UK and internationally.
We are seeking creative, collaborative and motivated people who want to contribute to an ambitious and inventive design culture.
Find out more and apply via our Careers page or please email your CV, portfolio and a short letter (PDF, max 12MB) explaining why you would like to join us to: careers@alisonbrooksarchitects.com
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MEXTRÓPOLI 2025, South America’s Architecture and City festival
19.09.2025, Mexico City, Mexico
This week, Alison Brooks will be speaking at MEXTRÓPOLI 2025, the Americas’ most important Architecture and City festival, where over 100,000 people gather in Mexico City to rethink the city through architecture. This festival opens urgent and critical dialogue among students, professionals, creatives, citizens and urban experts from across Latin America and around the world.
This week, Alison Brooks will be speaking at MEXTRÓPOLI 2025, the Americas’ most important Architecture and City festival, where over 100,000 people gather in Mexico City to rethink the city through architecture. This festival opens urgent and critical dialogue among students, professionals, creatives, citizens and urban experts from across Latin America and around the world.
She will be joining a stellar lineup of speakers including Alejandro Aravena, Bjarke Ingels, Natura Futura, Steven Holl, Minsuk Cho, Prof. Dietmar Eberle, Elizabeth Añaños, Cierto Estudio, Shohei Shigematsu, Iwan Baan, Clara Solá Morales and Pier Vittorio Aureli.
From the MEXTRÓPOLI website:
“The right to housing is considered basic and universal. After twelve years of reflecting on the city, public space, and particularly the housing crisis, MEXTRÓPOLI presents itself as the ideal moment and space for debate, for exploring new proposals, and for interaction between the architectural community, housing developers, and citizens.
This initiative highlights the need to rethink collective housing—something that has been central to architecture for at least a century. A critical exploration is essential, addressing key aspects such as optimal urban density, typological options, flexibility, and the recycling of both spaces and materials.”
⚪ Link to event here.
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Five Teams Shortlisted for Latest LSE Development
The project to revitalise 61A Aldwych Crescent for teaching and research will help consolidate the university’s London campus.
The project to revitalise 61A Aldwych Crescent for teaching and research will help consolidate the university’s London campus.
Alison Brooks Architects are delighted to be collaborating with Feix&Merlin Architects in this competition for The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).
Five design teams are in the running for the LSE competition to overhaul an Edwardian office building in Holborn, central London. Located on the corner of Aldwych and Kingsway, the 110-year-old block once hosted the Air Ministry before becoming home to television stations (when it was known as Television House) and later ExxonMobil.
We are happy to be shortlisted alongside Allies and Morrison, STUDIOS Architecture with Ayre Chamberlain Gaunt Ltd, Ennead Architects with 10 Design, and 3XN/GXN with Adamson Associates Architects – good luck to all.
Read the write up on the Architects’ Journal here.
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Jury Member for the 58th Canadian Architect Awards of Excellence
Pleased to announce that Alison Brooks, Founder and Creative Director of Alison Brooks Architects in London, has been invited to join this year’s jury for the 58th Canadian Architect Awards of Excellence.
She will join a distinguished lineup of fellow Canadian women in the industry: Kelly Buffey, Co-founder and Creative Director of Akb; Sonia Gagné, Design VP and Principal Partner at Provencher_Roy in Montreal; and Salina Kassam, Toronto-based architectural photographer who will be adjudicating the Photo Awards of Excellence.
It’s an honour for Alison Brooks to contribute to this annual celebration of design that has been spotlighting Canada’s architectural brilliance since 1967.
For more information and to enter, click here.
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Celebrating Cross-Border Collaboration in Architecture
On June 18th, Alison Brooks attended a celebration of the recently signed Mutual Recognition Agreement for architecture between Canada and the UK.
On June 18th, Alison Brooks attended a celebration of the recently signed Mutual Recognition Agreement for architecture between Canada and the UK.
The evening featured a speech by HE Ralph Goodale, Canada’s High Commissioner in the UK, celebrating cooperation between the UK and Canada – not to mention a strong showing from the expat architecture community and even some poutine, to top it all off. Hosted at the High Commission of Canada in the United Kingdom, Alison attended alongside fellow Canadian-in-London, Jamie Fobert.
This landmark agreement establishes mutual recognition between British Architects Registration Board-accredited qualifications and the Canadian Architectural Certification Board (CACB), through the Regulatory Organizations of Architecture in Canada (ROAC).
A little early for Canada Day on July 1st, but a memorable moment for architectural exchange and shared professional values.
Photography by High Commission of Canada in the UK / Alison Brooks.
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Alison Brooks Architects Participates in South Korean Exhibition
20.05.2025, Seoul, South Korea
Alison Brooks Architects was invited by the Korean Institute of Female Architects (KIFA) to participate in the International Exchange Exhibition for Women Architects 2025 held at the Dongdaemun Design Plaza.
Alison Brooks Architects was invited by the Korean Institute of Female Architects (KIFA) to participate in the International Exchange Exhibition for Women Architects 2025 held at the Dongdaemun Design Plaza.
The event titled, “Arch of Inclusion, Architecture Bridging Worlds” (포용의 아치, 세상을 잇는 건축), celebrated architecture’s enlightened role in promoting diversity, equal opportunity and sustainability – bringing together women architects from across the globe for a six-day event encouraging deeper reflection.
As the inaugural presentation of our work in South Korea, we were honoured to stand alongside peers such as 2020 Pritzker Prize laureates Yvonne Farrell & Shelley McNamara (Grafton Architects), 2025 RIBA Royal Gold Medallist Kazuyo Sejima (SANAA) and Astrid Feiber (UNStudio).
First Vice Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism, Yong Ho-Seong, aptly stated, “Architecture is not simply the composition of physical space, but a cultural art that designs people’s lives.’’
This was a meaningful and grounding experience – also the first international women’s architecture exhibition in South Korea in 15 years – which was made possible by KIFA and generously supported by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism.
Links to articles: Naver and eKoreaNews
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Alison Brooks Elevated to AIA Honorary Fellowship
We’re delighted to announce that Alison Brooks has been elevated to The The American Institute of Architects (AIA) College of Honorary Fellows.
We’re delighted to announce that Alison Brooks has been elevated to The The American Institute of Architects (AIA) College of Honorary Fellows.
This honour recognizes architects who have made significant contributions to the profession and society on an international level.
The 2025 Fellowship class includes 83 AIA member-architects and 10 international architects. Alison Brooks joins a distinguished group of global leaders, including Tatiana Bilbao and Michel Rojkind from Mexico, Jun’ya Ishigami and Masaharu Rokushika from Japan, Kain Bon Albert Chan, Hu Li, and Lyndon Uykim Neri from China, Brinda Somaya from India, and Kerstin Thompson from Australia.
This year’s fellows were selected by a jury which included chair Carl D’Silva, FAIA, Perkins&Will; Roderick Ashley, FAIA, Roderick Ashley Architect; Margaret Carney, FAIA, Cornell University; Sanford Garner, FAIA, RGCollaborative; Julie Hiromoto, FAIA, HKS; John Horky, FAIA, Ripples, by design; Mary Ann Lazarus, FAIA, Cameron MacAllister; Marilys Nepomechie, FAIA, Florida International University; Anne Schopf, FAIA, Mahlum and Jose Javier Toro, FAIA, Toro Arquitectos.
The 2025 class of Fellows and Honorary Fellows will be formally recognized at the AIA Conference on Architecture & Design (AIA25) in Boston this June.
You can read more about the appointment on AIA, Canadian Architect and Archdaily.
Photography by Tereza Červeňová.
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