Alison Brooks is the founder and creative director of Alison Brooks Architects, based in London.
19 Facts About Alison Brooks
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Alison Brooks's awards include the RIBA Stirling Prize, Manser Medal, Stephen Lawrence Prize, and RIBA House of the Year.
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Alison Brooks's designs include the Exeter College Cohen Quad at Oxford University, Smile at the Chelsea College of Arts, Accordia Brass Building and Sky Villas, and Windward House.
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In 2018 Brooks was invited to contribute to the Venice Architecture Biennale.
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Alison Brooks Architects won Dezeen Architect of the Year 2020.
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Alison Brooks was born and lived her early years in Welland, Canada, but moved city in Ontario to Guelph where she attended John F Ross high school.
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Alison Brooks finished her studies in architecture with a BES and BArch at the University of Waterloo in 1988.
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Alison Brooks moved to the UK and worked with designer Ron Arad, becoming a partner at Ron Arad Associates in 1991.
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Alison Brooks founded her practice Alison Brooks Architects in 1996, receiving a breakout commission a year later to design a hotel interior on the German island of Helgoland.
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Quarterhouse in Folkestone, Alison Brooks' first building for the performing arts, was completed in 2009.
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Alison Brooks Architects was shortlisted, from close to 200 international expressions of interest, to redevelop the London School of Economics' 43 Lincolns Inn Fields into the new Firoz Lalji Global Hub.
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Alison Brooks Architects has contributed to the International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia four times.
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In 2014 Alison Brooks joined forces with furniture designer Felix de Pass to create a stool for the kitchen as part of a collaborative series for the London Design Festival.
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Alison Brooks Architects have worked to advocate towards housing through community buildings by designing mixed-income housing projects.
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Alison Brooks's design allows for increased social engagement, particularly by providing spaces open to the public.
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Alison Brooks is the only architect of the UK to have won all three of the RIBA awards: the RIBA Stephen Lawrence Prize, the RIBA Manser Medal, and the RIBA Stirling Prize for their part in the design of Accordia, a high-density development of 378 residential rooms.
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In 2012, Alison Brooks was named Architect of the Year by Building Design Magazine.
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In March 2013, Alison Brooks received the Architects' Journals Woman Architect of the Year Award.
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Alison Brooks revealed some of her processes, techniques, and themes in her published work Synthesis: Culture and Context in 2014.