The Uses of History: Dialogue of Forms | Lecture by Alison Brooks
Co-hosted by the Association of Dundee Architecture Students and Edinburgh’s EUSAS, Alison Brooks’ lecture delved into “The Uses of History: Dialogue of Forms.” The post The Uses of History: Dialogue...
View ArticleCohen Quad Exeter College, Oxford is a Civic Trust Awards Winner 2021
Alison Brooks Architects is delighted that the Cohen Quad, Exeter College, Oxford has won a 2021 Civic Trust Award at the 5 March ceremony. Thank you Civic Trust Awards and congratulations to all award...
View ArticleAlison Brooks Shortlisted for Female Frontier’s 2021 Architect of the Year Award
Alison Brooks is delighted to be shortlisted in the Architect of the Year category in the Female Frontier Awards: Powered by WAN 2021, alongside 6 influential and esteemed colleagues from around the...
View ArticleYour Brent Magazine | Durham & Gloucester Court
Spring 2021’s edition of ‘Your Brent’ magazine features an article with some new residents of ABA’s Durham & Gloucester Court, part of the South Kilburn Estate Regeneration. When asked whether they...
View ArticleAccelerate 2021 | Open City’s Programme
Alison Brooks Architects is delighted to be supporting Accelerate on a journey towards a more diverse, open and inclusive industry. Providing 30 sixth form students from across London with a series of...
View ArticleAlison Brooks to speak at the Kosovo Architecture Festival 2021
As part of this year’s edition of the Kosovo Arch Fest, Alison Brooks will be giving a keynote lecture at the ICK – Innovation Centre Kosovo. The post Alison Brooks to speak at the Kosovo Architecture...
View ArticleEducation Estates Conference 2021
Alison Brooks and Professor Sir Richard Trainor, Rector of Exeter College, Oxford, will present the Cohen Quad at the Education Estates Conference 2021. Register here → The post Education Estates...
View ArticleAlison Brooks to speak at ‘Re-Evaluation’ Conference
Join Alison Brooks for her ‘Home Ground – Exploring the Civic Role of Housing’ lecture, as part of the ‘Re-Evaluation’ Conference. A collaboration between the International Academy of Architecture...
View ArticleAlison Brooks to speak at CTU Prague, Faculty of Architecture
Join Alison Brooks for her ‘Re-Invent’ lecture, as part of CTU Prague, Faculty of Architecture’s November Talks series. The presentation will be livestreamed on CTU’s YouTube page. The post Alison...
View ArticleBuilding Stories | The Awards Talks
Join Alison Brooks and Amin Taha as they discuss the unique story behind House on the Hill, recipient of the RIBA House of the Year 2021. Register here → The post Building Stories | The Awards Talks...
View ArticleCultural Formations
Cultural Formations brings together a selection of our practice’s most significant cultural and urban projects from the last 20 years. Each of these works translates specific social histories, urban...
View ArticleAlison Brooks to speak at The Good Business Festival
Join Alison Brooks in conversation with Osama Bhutta and Ayesha Hazarika, as part of The Good Business Festival. Titled House Nation, the panel discussion will delve into the challenges and...
View ArticleAlison Brooks Closing Keynote Speaker at Banffsessions
Alison Brooks will be the closing keynote speaker at the Alberta Association of Architects’ BanffSessions conference. The theme of the conference is ‘ADAPTATIONS’. Brooks’ presentation will focus on...
View ArticleBiennale Meets ROMA
The ‘Home Ground’ installation will be exhibited at the ROMA KG campus in Burgau, Germany until November. We are glad to be featured in this exhibition alongside models by Peter Pichler Architecture,...
View ArticleOpening Keynote Speech ‘Transformations’
Alison Brooks spoke for the American Institute of Architects, kicking off a 3-day conference focused on London, King’s Cross and its transformations since the last AIA London Conference in 2014. Alison...
View ArticleAlison Brooks Features at the Monterey Design Conference
Headlining alongside an impressive list of international design talents, Alison Brooks featured as a keynote speaker in Monterey, California for CAIA’s famed Monterey Design Conference. Learn more...
View ArticleSiza Talks 2022
Alison Brooks participated in The Álvaro Siza Talks 2022 last week, speaking at the Auditório de Serralves in Porto alongside international architecture and design talent. The theme proposed for this...
View ArticleIE University Guest Lecture
In November, Alison Brooks travelled to IE university to present her works to graduate students, placing an emphasis on sustainable, context-driven design. The post IE University Guest Lecture...
View ArticleMadame Architect Interview
This December Alison Brooks was interviewed by Julia Gamolina, the founder of Madame Architect. “We need more women creating the built environment, creating the cities in which we live. We need to...
View ArticlePerspective Forum Venice: A New Age of Wood
Alison Brooks headlined a conference sponsored by AHEC and attended by hundreds of architects and industry professionals this November. Read about the event here. The post Perspective Forum Venice: A...
View ArticlePublic Housing: A London Renaissance
The opening of a new exhibition at the NLA this week at London’s Building Centre. A review of current trends in London Estate housing. “This exhibition shows how London boroughs are working to deliver...
View ArticleBASE – Big Architecture and Sustainability
More than 700 Architecture and Arts students from De Montfort University Leicester (DMU) gathered for the first week of the academic year to take part in BASE (Big Architecture and Sustainability...
View ArticleThis Is Not A Fake, Bartlett International Lecture Series
In the context of a contemporary culture saturated with the virtual and the illusory, Alison Brooks delivered a lecture to the Bartlett on both the agency of the architect and the role of architecture...
View ArticleWood In Architeture, Florence
Michael Mueller delivered a lecture at the Palazzo Pucci in Florence, on ABA’s approach to designing with timber. The event was organised by The Plan Magazine and AHEC (American Hardwood Export...
View ArticleSto-Foundation: November Talks
Alison delivered a presentation to the University of Stuttgart for the Sto-Foundation November Talks season. She began her lecture entitled “Making it real – Archetypes and Ecosystems” by reading a...
View ArticleVictorian Society Lectures
Re-engaging with the Past: New Architectural Approaches In the third lecture of The Victorian Society winter lecture series The Victorian Society, in which Alison Brooks discusses the role of archetype...
View Article17 Nov 2020 | CTBUH Live-Streaming Three City Conference
On November 17, Alison Brooks will be presenting alongside esteemed colleagues from around the world, including Lord Norman Foster, Mun Summ Wong, and Patrik Schumacher, to discuss what the future of...
View Article4 Feb 2021 | Webinar Conference on Women British Architects
Alison Brooks is a keynote speaker at the next Webinar Conference on Women British Architects organised by Milan Foundation of the Chamber of Architects in collaboration with the Media Partner...
View Article20 Jan 2021 | Lecture to the Cross-border Canada ― USA Visual Arts and Built...
6pm EST, 11pm GMT You have the chance to join students from VABE at Alison Brooks’ lecture by registering, free of charge on VABE’s website Visual Arts and the Built Environment [VABE] is a unique...
View Article4 Feb 2021, 5pm (GMT) Alison Brooks is presenting at the Chamber of...
Join us live for a virtual visit to #Milano 4 Feb 5pm (GMT), 6PM (CET). Alison Brooks is presenting s part of a series entitled “The Contribution of Women in Contemporary Architecture: The British...
View ArticleAlison Brooks | Telegraph Luxury Magazine
This week’s Telegraph Luxury Magazine features Alison talking to Caroline Roux alongside other ground breaking female architects – Farshid Moussavi, Eva Jiricna, Stephanie Macdonald, Jee Liu and Sadie...
View ArticleRaising the Roof | Agata Toromanoff
Agata Toromanoff‘s new book “Raising the Roof – Women Architects Who Broke Through the Glass Ceiling” celebrates the achievements of women architects in every corner of the world. Alison Brooks is...
View ArticlePeople, Place, Planet #3 | Lecture by Alison Brooks
For this lecture at RIBA Somerset, Alison Brooks talked through some of her recent award winning and exemplar works and explained how they are borne out of contemporary constraints. “People, Place,...
View ArticleReconceptualizing Urban Housing at the Venice Biennale 2023
ABA work is on show at the Palazzo Mora in Venice as part of the Reconceptualizing Urban Housing exhibition. Organized by the ECC and curated by Canadian architect Heather Dubbeldam, the exhibition...
View ArticleArchitects, not Architecture Keynote Speech
Alison Brook spoke of her Canadian upbringing and architectural inspirations in a unique London event that prohibits speakers from talking about their practice’s work. Watch the full keynote speech by...
View ArticleHome Ground @ABA for the London Festival of Architecture 2023
This June, the office welcomed visitors to experience our Home Ground installation. After being exhibited at the 2021 Venice Architecture Biennale ‘How will we live together?’ and then travelling to...
View ArticleCornell AAP, ‘(An)Other University – A Place in Common’
Alison Brooks was honoured to teach at Cornell AAP this spring as Gensler Visiting Critic supported by AAP co-tutor Hanna Tulis. The studio ‘(An)Other University – A Place in Common’ investigated the...
View ArticleThe Architects Series – A documentary on Alison Brooks Architects
Presented by THE PLAN magazine for Iris Ceramica Group, the 31st instalment of the series will be premiered on Thursday September 14 at the Iris Ceramica Gallery in Clerkenwell, London. Join us in the...
View ArticleAlison Brooks at The Buildings Show Toronto International Architectural...
Alison Brooks will be in Toronto this November for The Buildings Show Toronto International Architectural Roundtable, where she will discuss Design Solutions for the Housing Crisis with Alfonso Femia,...
View ArticleAlison Brooks at The Interior Design Show Toronto 2024
Join Alison Brooks next Thursday, January 18th, as she delivers the keynote speech for the Interior Design Show (IDS) Toronto 2024. In conversation with Deezen’s US Editor, Ben Dreith, Alison will...
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