This week our guest lecturer Alison Brooks, invited as part of the Winter Lecture Series 2016, inspired the audience with his lecture: Architecture and its Side Effects.

Alison Brooks has earned a global reputation for design achievement, from her first one off houses, to work in urban regeneration and housing, to arts and education projects.

Her work is driven by a passion for cultural specificity, for an expressive materiality, and for architecture that manifests social ideals.

In her lecture she discussed the urban and social role of architecture, and the ideals that lie behind her most recent work in London and Oxford, including the Cohen Quadrangle and Ely Court, shortlisted for the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture.