publications
Architectural Research Quarterly Accordia Masterplan Accordia Sky Villas Accordia Brass Building
09.2004
“Any doubts that the practice of architecture can also be the practice of research, should be dispelled by this scheme. Its wealth of ideas will make it a living research tool.”
“Any doubts that the practice of architecture can also be the practice of research, should be dispelled by this scheme. Its wealth of ideas will make it a living research tool.”
This issue of the Cambridge University Press journal features a 9-spread article about Accordia, entitled Brooklands Avenue Housing: a green carpet in Cambridge.
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1000 Architects VXO House Atoll Spa Hotel Accordia Masterplan
2004
This comprehensive directory of the world’s leading architects features a profile of Alison Brooks Architects.
This comprehensive directory of the world’s leading architects features a profile of Alison Brooks Architects.
“Alison Brooks Architects, founded in 1996, has the aim of producing an experimental yet accessible architecture with direct impact on quality of life and the wider urban environment. ABA has developed an international reputation with work that extends the boundaries of architectural experience, both conceptually and materially, in areas such as urban design, commercial interiors, housing and landscape.
ABA’s work is both a site-specific collaboration and the result of intensive cross-fertilization with the non-architectural and the sensory, creating a fertile mulch of ideas that maximizes the idiosyncrasies of the brief to create the unexpected. Within this inclusive design framework the practice aims to integrate innovative construction techniques with a sustainable response to local conditions.”
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Phaidon Atlas of Contemporary World Architecture VXO House
2004
“By adding three new elements that are playfully identified by structural components taking the form of three capital letters, the disparate composition of the building is unified along a garden route from the public entrance to the more private parts of the house beyond.”
“By adding three new elements that are playfully identified by structural components taking the form of three capital letters, the disparate composition of the building is unified along a garden route from the public entrance to the more private parts of the house beyond.”
“On arriving at the site, visitors are met by the most sculptural feature of Brooks’ composition, the O port, which both provides shelter for vehicles and frames the view to the garden. From here, the eye is drawn to the X of the new garden gymnasium and guest pavilion and the V of the house. The pavilion addresses both the house and the entrance, and provides a fully-glazed space between the raised timber floor and the sedum roof held above by the massive X column. The new entrance hall of the main houser is located between a slate terrace and an elevated timber box held on the final letter – a red capital V. Visual penetration into this space is screened by the suspended, perforated metal stair.”
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New Architecture in Britain VXO House
Metropolis VXO House
2003
Documenting the 5th São Paulo Biennial for Architecture and Design, this book features ABA’s VXO House in its survey of London’s contemporary architectural scene.
Documenting the 5th São Paulo Biennial for Architecture and Design, this book features ABA’s VXO House in its survey of London’s contemporary architectural scene.
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Furniture + Architecture
2002
“The late 20th century was characterised by a cultural divide between furniture design and architecture. Alison Brooks speculates what benefits might come with the blurring and convergence of the two previously distinct disciplines.”
“The late 20th century was characterised by a cultural divide between furniture design and architecture. Alison Brooks speculates what benefits might come with the blurring and convergence of the two previously distinct disciplines.”
Alison Brooks’ 10-page article The Cultural Divide is featured in this book takes a unique look at the relationship between architects and furniture design.
The book includes comprehensive articles and images of popular modernist architects such as Erno Goldfinger, Arne Jacobsen and Eero Saarinen It also features interviews with architects Alvaro Siza, David Adjaye and Selfridges director Vittore Radice Lavishly illustrated with many fullcolour images Contains a directory of specialist retailers selling architect-designed furniture.
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Riba Journal VXO House
04.2002
“The owners clearly love Brooks’ light, accessible and playful transformation of the house, saying how cosy it is now that, paradoxically, it is all so open and interlinked.”
“The owners clearly love Brooks’ light, accessible and playful transformation of the house, saying how cosy it is now that, paradoxically, it is all so open and interlinked.”
VXO House is featured on the front page of this issue of the RIBA Journal, along with a seven page article.
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The Architectural Review VXO House
04.2002
“The inventive conversion and extension of [VXO] house in north London is one of an inventive trio of structures in a leafy garden.”
“The inventive conversion and extension of [VXO] house in north London is one of an inventive trio of structures in a leafy garden.”
“Alison Brooks’ originality, her continually intriguing detailing, have been seen before, most recently in design of the Atoll Hotel in Helgoland. If the playful organicism that has permeated previous works is not so evident here, her preoccupation with layering space and making it flow is.”
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Bar and Club Design Atoll Spa Hotel
2002
This collection of commercial interiors features ABA’s Atoll Hotel.
This collection of commercial interiors features ABA’s Atoll Hotel.
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New Architects 2: A guide to Britain’s best young architectural practices VXO House Fold House Atoll Spa Hotel
2001
New Architects 2, the second in a series complied by The Architecture Foundation, features ABA projects VXO House, Atoll Spa Hotel, and Fold House in a profile of the practice.
New Architects 2, the second in a series complied by The Architecture Foundation, features ABA projects VXO House, Atoll Spa Hotel, and Fold House in a profile of the practice.
It offers a unique survey of new architectural talent in Britain today, providing details of nearly 100 of the best emerging practices. It is illustrated with their most recent work, and includes factual information for those interested in contemporary architecture, and for those who wish to commission new and innovative designs.
Supported by the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment, New Architects 2 is a directory of new British practices.
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The Architect: Women in Contemporary Architecture
2001
Alison Brooks is one of 33 female architects profiled in this book, which also features Elizabeth Diller, Zaha Hadid and Kazuyo Sejima.
Alison Brooks is one of 33 female architects profiled in this book, which also features Elizabeth Diller, Zaha Hadid and Kazuyo Sejima.
This book has the urgency of alerting people to the great contributions made by women architects to contemporary architecture, architects whose exceptional vision and design expertise have provided landmark expressions of modern culture. Underlying this celebration of their achievements is the ongoing struggle of these women to achieve professional parity with men in a field long dominated by males.
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Europan 5: New Housing Landscapes, Travel and Proximity
AD: Hypersurface Architecture II Atoll Spa Hotel
1999
“In all her projects, Brooks is intent on pursuing a position between the sensory and the intellectual, the physical and the political. Her enquiring intellect constantly pushes the boundaries of the programme or brief.”
“In all her projects, Brooks is intent on pursuing a position between the sensory and the intellectual, the physical and the political. Her enquiring intellect constantly pushes the boundaries of the programme or brief.”
“It is this ability to challenge parameters and conventions in new ways that makes her such a successful competition entrant. Her solution, nevertheless, is always injected with the sensual – an acute awareness of form and colour, which she has transferred from the more conspicuously sensual world of commercial interiors.”
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