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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 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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AIA UK Chapter Announces 2025 Excellence in Design Award with Alison Brooks as Jury Chair
Celebrating UK architectural excellence, the awards honour contributions in design and environmental stewardship.
Celebrating UK architectural excellence, the awards honour contributions in design and environmental stewardship.
Entries from the fields of architecture, urban planning, technology, interior design, landscape architecture, visualisation and beyond, are welcome to participate.
The American Institute of Architects, UK has announced the 2025 Excellence in Design Awards will be chaired by Alison Brooks.
Alison is judging alongside an exceptional panel: DaeWha Kang, Founder, DaeWha Kang Design; Matthias Schuler, Founder & Managing Partner, Transsolar KlimaEngineering; Rob Partridge, Design Director, AKT II; Ellie Stathaki, Architecture & Environment Director, Wallpaper* magazine; and Margherita Giannoni, UK PR & Communications, Iris Ceramica Group.
Deadline for submissions: March 31, 2025, at 5:00 PM GMT. AIA membership is not required to participate.
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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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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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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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Positions Available
We are looking to expand our London office with highly skilled architects from diverse backgrounds.
We are looking to expand our London office with highly skilled architects from diverse backgrounds.
Contact us if you are an experienced and talented architect with Revit skills for projects in Stage 3 and Stage 4, or if you are a graduate/assistant architect with advanced 3D rendering skills hoping to strengthen our cultural building and high-rise design groups.
careers@alisonbrooksarchitects.com
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Cultural Formations Featured in Varsity
“Deftly combining explorations into local history and collective memory with a celebration of modern architectural craft, ABA envisions a diverse urban environment in which buildings are shaped by, and for, their community.”
Varsity‘s Zoe Turoff penned this glowing review of our recent exhibition ‘Cultural Formations’. →
“Deftly combining explorations into local history and collective memory with a celebration of modern architectural craft, ABA envisions a diverse urban environment in which buildings are shaped by, and for, their community.”
Varsity‘s Zoe Turoff penned this glowing review of our recent exhibition ‘Cultural Formations’. →
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