MSD Dean's Lecture: Alison Brooks
2 October, 2019
Melbourne School of Design, VIC, Australia
About
Named in 2012 by Debrett’s as one of ‘Britain’s 500 Most Influential’, Alison Brooks, the Principal and Creative Director of Alison Brooks Architects will be presenting the Dean’s Lecture at the Melbourne School of Design, The University of Melbourne. Alison leads as one of the most influential architects of her generation having developed an international reputation for a multi-award winning body of work since founding her practice in 1996.
About Alison Brooks
Alison’s work emerges from broad cultural research, with each project expressing a specific response to place, community, and landscape. Her portfolio of projects has a distinct identity encompassing urban design, housing, education and buildings for the arts. Her work has attracted international acclaim for its conceptual rigour, sculptural quality and ingenious detailing, exemplified by the spectacular new Cohen Quadrangle for Exeter College, Oxford.
Alison has become a public voice for the profession advocating the role of housing as civic building, the resurgence of building craft and the use of timber in architecture. In 2017 Alison was appointed as a Royal Designer for Industry by the RSA and selected as Mayors Design Advocate for London. She was honoured with the 2017 AJ100 Contribution to the Profession Award giving the keynote speech to the UK’s 100 largest practices.
Alison is the only British architect to have won all three of the UK’s most prestigious awards for architecture: the RIBA Stirling Prize, Manser Medal and Stephen Lawrence Prize. She was awarded 2013 Woman Architect of the Year by the Architect’s Journal in recognition of her work in housing, regeneration and education. In 2012 Alison Brooks and her team were awarded Architect of the Year and Housing Architect of the Year.
Date and time: Tue. 2 October 2018, 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm AEST
Location: Melbourne School of Design, Masson Road, Parkville, VIC 3010, Australia
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