Monthly Archives: March 2025
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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We are seeking 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; Office Lunch Mondays, Cycle to Work Scheme, Childcare Vouchers, Practice Pension scheme, 20 days paid holiday, wellness initiatives and one week Work from Abroad each year.
Office hours: 9am-6pm, Monday-Friday
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.
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 – Revista de Arquitectura, 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, and a special shoutout to the AA Bookshop for having us Andrew Whittaker and co.
Gratitude also goes to the incredible photographers who helped bring our work to life: Paul Riddle (who contributes the stunning cover image of Cadence), Dennis Gilbert, Chris Gascoigne, Mark York, Tim Crocker, Cristobal Palma, Peter Cook, Paul Eccleston, Hufton+Crow, Dav Stewart, Jon Cardwell, Edmund Sumner, Luke Hayes, Andrea Avezzu.
And of course, ABA team members past and present who have contributed to the work within these pages Antonio Callejon Nache, Max Mika, Karim Termos, Caitlin Bell, Alexandra Sermol, Alberto Ortiz Abad, Barney Row, Zhiyao Zhou.
Finally, a big thanks to Guillermo Rubio and TC Cuadernos for bringing this publication to life.
