Monthly Archives: April 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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Alison Brooks Provides Bold Ideas for UK Housing – Architecture Today Webinar
Next Wednesday, join a live webinar with Alison Brooks and an expert panel for a discussion addressing the UK’s most pressing housing challenges today. As the affordability crisis collides with the urgent need for sustainable, equitable design. Be a part of the live conversation shaping what comes next.
Is modular construction the answer to delivering high-quality, affordable homes faster? How can architects enable community-led housing projects that prioritise local needs and foster social cohesion? What lessons can be drawn from recent case studies in balancing sustainability, affordability, and architectural integrity?
Joining her on the expert-led panel is Richard Williams Senior Architect Development Manager, Velux; Joanna Yarrow Chief Impact Officer, Human Nature; Iain Durrant, Business Development Director, FabSpeed; Jon Broome, Designer, Self-builder, Enabler, and Anurag Verma, Chair, Rural Urban Synthesis Society; Associate Director, Latitude Architects.
⚪ Register for the event here.
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Hands-on Learning with Camden STEAM for Local Secondary Schools
This March, we teamed up with Camden STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics) and General Projects to bring practical, real-world architecture to life for two groups of local secondary school students.
Over two immersive sessions, the students had the opportunity to experience their first taste of a career in the built environment. The students explored a theoretical case study challenge for an existing industrial building at Highgate Studios, while applying regenerative principles to reimagine the site.
A glimpse into the future of our industry – the sessions exposed these young minds to the same questions we tackle daily in practice.
⚪ Read the vision for Camden STEAM here.
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Alison Brooks Named Among Spear’s 500 Top Flight Architects of 2025
We are delighted that Alison Brooks has been recognised as ‘Top Flight Best Architects of 2025’, celebrated for her “inventive architectural imagination.” This marks her second appearance on the Spear’s 500 list, following her debut in 2017.
Alison is featured among the top home & design advisers in the 2025 Spears Index, a Spears Magazine annual listing of the best architects, interior designers and landscape gardeners working with high net-worth individuals today – a testament to Alison’s ability to harmonise visionary design with the pragmatism of developing prime real estate.
⚪ Find out about the Spear’s ranking here.
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Discover our Material Ethos in Architecture Today March-April issue AT336
In the latest issue of Architecture Today – Alison Brooks and Ruben Ramos, Sustainability Working Group Lead, sit down with John Ramshaw to dissect how our practice’s material language bridges socio-cultural narratives, environmental stewardship and biophilic reconnection.
Through the lens of recent projects such as Stratford Cross and One Ashley Road, they discuss how our material library is evolving to meet current standards, uniting long-lasting and hand-textured materials with modern prefabrication techniques while working within the constraints of the UK procurement system.
Photography by Agnese Sanvito
⚪ View the digital publication of AT336 here.
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Windward House featured in ‘Art in Residence: Collected Objects and the Architectural Homes They Live In’
Our Windward House has been selected by acclaimed photographer Nicole England for her latest publication.
Our Windward House has been selected by acclaimed photographer Nicole England for her latest publication.
Joining 21 other exceptional residences from New York to Victoria, Australia, ‘Art in Residence: Collected Objects and the Architectural Homes They Live In’ is a hardback ode to 22 homes where curated collections and thoughtful architecture converge.
Nicole England is a Melbourne-based architecture and interiors photographer whose work has been featured in Architectural Digest, Vogue Living, ELLE Decor, Wallpaper*, among other leading publications.
⚪ Copies of Art in Residence are available at Penguin Books.
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