RIBA Gloucestershire: Guest Lecture with Alison Brooks

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RIBA Gloucestershire are delighted to invite you to an evening with Alison Brooks, Principal and Creative Director of Alison Brooks Architects, who is recognised as one of the leading architects of her generation.

Since founding Alison Brooks Architects in 1996 she has attracted acclaim for her work in urban design, housing, buildings for the arts and higher education. She has recently completed a new teaching and residential Quadrangle for Exeter College, Oxford, is designing major mixed-use schemes across the UK and has been commissioned to design a Maggie’s Centre in Taunton. Named by Debrett’s as one of ‘Britain's 500 Most Influential’, Alison Brooks 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. In 2016 she received an Honorary Doctorate of Engineering from U of Waterloo and in 2017 received the AJ100 Contribution to the Profession Award.

Alison Brooks is a CABE / Design Council National Design Review Panel Chair and Trustee of Open-City. She was a was member of The Farrell Review of Architecture and the Built Environment and the RIBA Awards group from 2010-15, where she was juror for the 2011 Stirling Prize and 2010 Lubetkin Prize. Brooks is currently External Examiner at the Architectural Association where she taught a Diploma Unit from 2008-2010. In 2017 she was selected as Mayors Design Advocate for London and has been appointed as an RSA ‘Royal Designer for Industry’. Alison lectures internationally on architecture and urban design.

This event is kindly sponsored by the RIBA Local Initiative Fund and Ibstock.

Event Schedule

17:30 Welcome Drinks
18:00 Guest Lecture with Alison Brooks
19:15 Q&A
19:30 Close