Synthesis: Culture and Context

By Alison Brooks

Alison Brooks Architects is one of the most significant new practices to have emerged in Britain in the past 15 years, achieving international recognition for its seminal houses, large-scale housing design and growing portfolio of public higher education and arts buildings. Alison Brooks Architects is the only practice to have won all three of the UK's most prestigious architectural awards, the RIBA's Stirling Prize, Manser Medal and Stephen Lawrence Prize. In 2012 Alison Brooks Architects was recognised for its contribution to housing design with the Building Design's Architect of the Year Award and Housing Architect of the Year. As a research-based practice, Alison Brooks Architects draws on a broad range of cultural references, histories and narratives to produce architecture that challenges formal and typological conventions while remaining locally resonant. This book reveals the themes, techniques and processes behind Alison Brooks Architects' work, and how these have been expressed in some of the most carefully original architecture of its generation.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1908967250
• ISBN13: 9781908967251
• Release Date: April 2014
• Publisher: Artifice
• Length: 192 Pages