Alison Crawshaw
Alison is a registered architect and set up her studio in 2014. The studio pursues a design led and interdisciplinary approach to architecture through a portfolio that includes landscape, urban design, buildings and installations. Alison has extensive experience in the design and delivery of public space and urban strategy and a thorough understanding of arts practice and institutions having collaborated with many contemporary artists and leading galleries.
Alison has tutored at a number of architecture schools including Cambridge University, the Architectural Association, the Royal College of Art, London and the Bauhaus in Dessau. She was Rome Scholar in Architecture, exhibitor in the international section of the Venice Biennale and was shortlisted for Harvard University’s Wheelwright Prize. She has exhibited and lectured internationally and her practice is listed on the Mayor’s A + U Framework.
Previously, she worked in New York and in London, at muf architecture/ art, where she was project architect of Barking Town Square, winner of the European Prize for Urban Space.
MA. RCA, MA. CANTAB, ARB.
Alison Crawshaw Ltd is a company registered in England and Wales.
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Contact
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Mandarin Wharf
70-76 De Beauvoir Crescent
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Selected Exhibitions, Presentations & Texts
Interview
Scaffold Podcast no 115. See more
Scaffold, London
Talk
Learning From Renee Gailhoustet. Presentation of Open Havelock.
Royal Academy of Art, London
Talk
Architecture on Stage. Presentation of Villa Naddah Landscape.
Barbican, London
Book
New Architects 4. Survey of Emerging Practices
Published by the Architecture Foundation
Exhibition, Talk
New Publics
British School of Rome, Rome
Essay
Introduction to Camilla Low’s Outdoors/ Utendors.
Belmacz, London
Talk
What’s that Thing? On Public Art.
Spectator Magazine and the Architecture Foundation, London
Talk
Nature in the City. Presentation of Villa Naddah Landscape.
KU Leuven, Belgium
Exhibition
Bar for the Future
Belmacz, London
Essay
How did we get here and where do we go? Review of OMA’s Elements of Architecture. See more
Afterall
Exhibition
Informal Common Grounds
nGbK, Berlin
Talk
The Politics of Bricolage.
British School of Rome, London
Exhibition, Talk
Percorsi Informali
Maxxi, Rome
Talk
The Architecture of Play
ICA, London
Talk
Rolex Panel Discussion on mentorship with D. Chipperfield, K. Sejima, and HU. Obrist
La Biennale di venezia. 13. Venice.
Exhibition
Common Ground
La Biennale di venezia. 13. Venice.
Talks
On the HdM pavillion and Wolfgang Tilmans exhibition
Serpentine Gallery, London
The Architectural Review
New Architects 4
Selected Teaching
Open Deposit, Workshop Leader
Università degli Studi di Camerino, Ascoli
Institutional Forms and Urban Logics, Masters Studio Tutor. See more
Royal College of Art, London
Foundation, Tutor
Architectural Association, London
Rome Reorientated, Workshop Leader
Roma Tre, Rome
Design Studio, Tutor
Cambridge University, Cambridge
Get on Site! and Home is Everywhere, Summer School Tutor
Bauhaus, Dessau
Alternative Legacy, Assistant Tutor to muf partners
Yale, New Haven
Institutional Forms and Urban Logics, Royal College of Art, London
Get on Site! and Home is Everywhere, Bauhaus, Dessau
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