Keynote: Ceri Edmunds | Alison Brooks Architects
UK | London
Lecture: "Transformations"
Alison Brooks Architects is one of the UK’s most highly awarded and internationally acclaimed architects office. Since founding the practice in 1996 Alison Brooks has emerged as one of the UK’s most inventive architects with works encompassing urban design and housing, higher education buildings, private houses and public buildings for the arts. She is the only UK architect to have received all three of the profession’s most prestigious awards: the RIBA Stirling Prize, the Manser Medal (twice), and the Stephen Lawrence Prize.
Alison Brooks’ unique architectural approach springs from invested research into the specific geography, climate and cultures of each project so that their design solutions emerge as both unique and relevant to the constituencies they serve. This is exemplified by their recently completed Cohen Quadrangle at Exeter College, Oxford. The first to be designed by a female architect, this building demonstrates the conceptual rigour, sculptural quality and ingenious detailing that is her practice trademark.
Ceri Edmunds is a graduate of Cambridge University and Harvard University, where he received a Masters with Distinction in 2013. His thesis research and design project won the Clifford Wong Prize in Housing Design. While studying, he also assisted with the teaching of two Harvard design studios. Ceri gained his RIBA Part III at the University of Westminster in 2016.
Ceri joined ABA in 2014, having previously worked for the office from 2007-2009, and for the summers of 2010 and 2011. Ceri has had a
key role as a designer in competition winning schemes, such as; North West Cambridge Development ‘Knight’s Park’; Kings Cross
Development ‘Cadence’, Exeter College Cohen Quad, Oxford, the University of Northampton and an Art Cenre in Cambridge. More recently, Ceri was a design lead in the shortlisted London School of Economics Global Hub design proposal.
