News
TC 163 – Alison Brooks Architects: Architecture 2004 – 2024
03.2025
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.
We are seeking a Part II Architectural Assistant
03.2025
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.
Monograph Launch at Architectural Association (AA) Bookshop in London
03.2025
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.
RIBA Architecture work experience placement
02.2025
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.
Unity Place Shortlisted by RIBA for Best Affordable Housing
10.2024
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!
Citymakers Publication by Allies and Morrison
09.2024
Alison’s thinkpiece, “The University as Civic Commons,” is featured in this year’s Citymakers publication on the Knowledge City, by Allies and Morrison.
This piece is based on her lecture at the “City Knowledge, Knowledge City” event during Citymakers 2023, delving into the evolving role of universities within their host cities.
Alison’s analysis reflects a broader shift in how universities are perceived; once viewed as isolated ivory towers where information was a privileged commodity, universities are now increasingly expected to serve as bridges between academic communities and the wider public.
Notable examples from the publication include the Bissell Building at John P. Robarts Research Library in Toronto, Canada; the LSE Firoz Lalji Global Hub in London, UK; the Homerton College Entrance Building and the Eddington Masterplan in Cambridge, UK; and Cohen Quad at Exeter College in Oxford, UK.
Citymakers, the annual publication and conference by Allies and Morrison, explores the often-misunderstood role of masterplanning in shaping today’s cities. Alongside Alison’s contribution, the publication features insights from various experts, including Yolande Barnes, Sarah Chubb, Rod Cantrill, Rick Splinter, Paul Eaton, Paul Appleton, Lou Cordwell, Kenneth Kinsella, Kate Wittels, Joe Berridge, Jeremy Till, Jane Hutchins, Nancy Rothwell, and Artur Carulla, with a foreword by Antje Saunders.