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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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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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RIBA Journal Sustainable Design Webinar featuring Michael Mueller
On Tuesday, March 25, 2025, at 9:00-11:30, please tune in to a RIBA Journal webinar featuring Michael Mueller, Alison Brooks Architects Director, and Alexis Butterfield, Partner, New Settlements at Pollard Thomas Edwards, as they discuss our latest Net-Zero green masterplan Knights Park at Eddington, a key component of the North West Cambridge Development, contributing to the latest insights into sustainable architecture.
Other speakers include Dr Marcella Ucci, Professor in Healthy and Sustainable Buildings, Deputy Director for Academic Operations, IEDE, The Bartlett School of Environment, Energy and Resources (BSEER), UCL Institute for Environmental Design and Engineering (IEDE) and Steve Wallis, Associate Director at dRMM.
This webinar will be chaired by Jan-Carlos Kucharek, Deputy Editor, RIBAJ. Knights Park is also shortlisted for this year’s RIBA East award.
Sign up for the webinar on Eventbrite.
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We are Hiring a Part II Architectural Assistant
We are seeking a Part II architectural assistant to join our studio in London.
The Studio
Alison Brooks Architects is a London-based design firm internationally recognised for our culturally responsive, community-focused work across diverse sectors, from education and the arts to landmark residential and urban design projects worldwide. We nurture a creative studio culture that fuses research and experimentation with technical expertise, serving a local and global clientele.
As a collaborative studio, we encourage all team members to engage thoughtfully and actively contribute ideas to our design discussions.
Key Responsibilities
+ Maintain and contribute to our design ethos
+ Progress and develop designs collaboratively, ensuring quality
+ Prepare and deliver project outputs to the program and brief
+ Present and communicate ideas
+ Work as part of a project team on both design and technical stages
Skills
+ Excellent 3D design skills in Rhino and Adobe Suite
+ Experience of Twinmotion, Grasshopper and Revit an advantage
+ Excellent verbal and written communication
+ Excellent organization, time management, and versatility
+ Strong attention to detail
Benefits include flex policy of WFH Wednesday, Tuesday Team Lunch, Cycle to Work Scheme, Childcare Vouchers, Practice Pension scheme, 20 days paid holiday, wellness initiatives and one week Work from Abroad each year.
Salary: commensurate with skills and experience
Please e-mail your CV portfolio and a letter outlining why you think you are suited to the role in PDF format not exceeding 10MB to careers@alisonbrooksarchitects.com
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer, celebrating diversity and inclusion in our workplace.
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Monograph Launch at Architectural Association (AA) Bookshop in London
We marked World Book Day with the launch of our new practice monograph at the Architectural Association Bookshop, London.
It was a fitting moment to to commemorate this milestone for the volume, Alison Brooks Architects: Architecture 2004–2024, with our practice collaborators, contributors and members of the UK’s oldest private school of architecture at 33 Bedford Square.
Published by TC Cuadernos, this dual English-Spanish edition (TC 163) captures two decades of our work. The monograph features:
+ An introduction by Ricardo Meri de la Maza: ‘On the Essence of Alison Brooks’ Architecture’
+ A conversation between Jose Maria de Lapuerta and Alison Brooks
+ 16 built works completed in the past 20 years, extensively documented with descriptive texts, photographs, drawings
‘The work of Alison Brooks Architects fuses an endlessly inventive architectural imagination with profound sensitivity to the diverse cultural and natural histories that form each project’s provenance. This ethos underpins the extraordinary array of nuanced and joyful works illustrated in this book, collectively described by Brooks as experimental archetypes.’
Thank you to all who attended and purchased a copy of our monograph.
The monograph is available to purchase here.
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Collaborative Hartree Masterplan is a Finalist for The Pineapple Awards, ‘Future Place’ Category
Our collaborative 120-acre neighbourhood in Cambridge, a masterplan rooted in place and local heritage, is a finalist for The Pineapple awards by The Developer and Festival of Place in the ‘Future Place’ category!
We have been contributing to Kjellander Sjöberg’s Hartree masterplan for regeneration specialist, LandsecU+I, and profit-with-purpose developer, TOWN. Alison Brooks Architects is proud to be part of the team alongside Bell Phillips, Haworth Tompkins, 5th Studio, Feilden Fowles and Nooma Studio.
Read more at the Festival of Place.
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RIBA Architecture work experience placement
Congratulations to Leul, our pre-university student, for successfully completing his RIBA Work Placement.
Congratulations to Leul, our pre-university student, for successfully completing his RIBA Work Placement.
As part of the Diversity Emergency program, Leul gained his first work experience in architecture, joining us for a week-long placement designed to open doors for state-school students.
Leul confidently took on a design brief, and by the end of the week had maturely developed a proposal for a private residence while mastering advanced computational tools. Aligning with our office’s developing Computational Design Group – it was inspiring to see his passion for residential design reaffirmed, under the guidance of senior members, Zoe Haysom and Hannah Puckey.
Thank you to RIBA and Beyond The Box CIC, Ash Goyal and Sophie Draper, for making this opportunity possible.
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Alison Brooks Delivers Two Canadian Lectures at McGill and TMU
Alison Brooks recently participated in a roadshow for architectural discourse at the prestigious McGill and Toronto Metropolitan Universities, as part of her ‘An Architecture of Kindred Spirits’ lecture series. In it, she explores how her practice embeds memory, material culture, and the concept of journey in works that help strengthen communities.
Brooks presented the annual Sheila Baillie Lecture in Architecture at McGill University’s Peter Guo-Hua Fu School of Architecture in Montreal on February 11th.
Following her Montreal engagement, Brooks continued her tour with a lecture series at Toronto Metropolitan University’s Department of Architectural Science on the 13th of February. In addition to her academic engagements, Brooks was the guest of honour at the BEAT Dinner Series in Toronto. Building Equality in Architecture Toronto (BEAT) is a Toronto-based volunteer-run organization seeking to creating opportunities for community-building, advocacy, networking, and mentorship within the built environment.
Brooks’ ‘An Architecture of Kindred Spirits’ series, premiered in London, United Kingdom, in 2024, presented by the Architecture Foundation x the Barbican. The series continues to reach audiences in Canada and beyond, emphasising lessons from her personal narrative underscoring her commitment and establishing her reputation as one of the most individual voices in architecture.
McGill poster by Atelier Pastille Rose
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Unity Place Shortlisted by RIBA for Best Affordable Housing
We are honoured that Unity Place has been shortlisted for the RIBA Neave Brown Award for Housing.
We are honoured that Unity Place has been shortlisted for the RIBA Neave Brown Award for Housing.
This recognition comes at a crucial time when the agenda for affordable housing is at the forefront in the UK. RIBA describes the project as a “key element” in the 15-year South Kilburn Regeneration Programme, delivering 235 homes that restore historical street patterns and harmonise high-density housing with surrounding low- to medium-rise buildings through contextually sensitive materials.
Unity Place is a collaboration with Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios, Gort Scott, RM_A and Brent Council.
Astrid Smitham, founder of Apparata and last year’s winner, highlighted the shortlist’s emphasis on strong client-architect partnerships in delivering high-quality housing, “At a time when the UK sets out to build 1.5 million new homes, this shortlist shows the importance of great partnerships between clients and architects in delivering housing of the very highest standard, that everyone deserves.”
RIBA President Muyiwa Oki PRIBA added that social housing is “a great opportunity” for architects, not a limitation, “This year’s shortlist reaffirms that creating social housing should not be seen as a limitation to architects, but a great opportunity.”
We are honoured to have been shortlisted and would like to thank our collaborators on Unity Place. Best of luck to all the shortlisted teams!
Read the RIBA announcement here.
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Toronto City Council Approves First Phase of Quayside
Toronto City Council has approved the zoning for the first phase of Quayside, a project that reflects the vision of Waterfront Toronto, Dream, and our entire Quayside design team.
Toronto City Council has approved the zoning for the first phase of Quayside, a project that reflects the vision of Waterfront Toronto, Dream, and our entire Quayside design team.
This project aims to create a dynamic, inclusive, and sustainable community on Toronto’s former industrial waterfront.
This milestone would not have been possible without the collaborative efforts of Waterfront Toronto, Dream, Great Gulf, and our masterplan team, including Henning Larsen, SLA, Adjaye Associates, Two Row Architect, and executive architects, Architects Alliance.
Inspired by the character of Toronto’s warehouses and the charm of its King Street and St. Lawrence neighbourhoods, our masterplan and first phase, Western Curve, are set to transform the city’s waterfront. We’re excited to continue this journey and bring this visionary project to life for Toronto.