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ALISON BROOKS ARCHITECTS LTD
Unit 610 Highgate Studios, 53/79 Highgate Road
London NW5 1TL
tel. 44 020 7267 9777, fax 44 020 7267 9772
www.alisonbrooksarchitects.com




Alison Brooks - BES B Arch RIBA
Director - Alison Brooks Architects Ltd.

Alison Brooks has established a reputation as one of the UK's leading new architectural talents since
founding her London-based practice ABA in 1996. An intensely site-specific approach, drawing upon
the broader cultural context of each project, has generated a continuously experimental yet award-winning,
body of work. Recognised for expressively manipulating form, material and structure to reinvent typologies
and dramatically sculpt space, her work often questions the nature of architecture and the conventions
that surround it. Her belief in the transformative power of architecture underlies a commitment to housing
design and its role in defining the character of our cities.

Alison Brooks is the first UK architect to have won the UK’s two most prestigious awards for residential
architecture -  the Stephen Lawrence Prize for Wrap House (2006), and the Manser Medal for Salt House
(2007). ABA won the Stirling Prize 2008 for the 400 unit Accordia Housing Development in Cambridge,
with Fielden Clegg Bradley Studios and Maccreanor Lavington Architects.

Expanding her focus to public and arts buildings, ABA has recently won international competitions for
the Bridgwater Performing Arts Centre (2008) and the Folkestone Performing Arts Centre (2005), to open
December 2008. ABA is undertaking masterplanning, housing and mixed use commissions in throughout
the UK, and has been shortlisted for the Olympic Athletes Village panel. The practice has recently
been selected for the London Development Agency Architecture, Landscape and Urban Design
Framework Panel.

Canadian-born and educated at the University of Waterloo (BArch 1988) Alison Brooks moved to the UK
in 1989. After a 7 year partnership with Ron Arad, She formed ABA to pursue large scale urban and public
projects. Alison Brooks has taught and lectured internationally, served as juror for the RIBA Awards,
The Housing Design Awards and the Young Architect of the Year Awards in which she was a finalist
in 1999. She is a member of the Southwark Design Review Panel and is external examiner at Bath
and Lincoln Universities.

NEWS FROM ALISON BROOKS ARCHITECTS:
ACCORDIA WINS PRESTIGIOUS RIBA STIRLING PRIZE 2008
ABA WINS HOUSING DESIGN AWARD FOR URBAN SPLASH TRIBECA DEVELOPMENT

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