Allies and Morrison

Research

1. Book / Citymakers: What we leave behind

   The climate emergency demands we retain much more of our urban fabric rather than build anew. Here we explore ways of approaching the often awkward urban inheritance of the 20th century.

2. Research / Sustainability Sustainability

   The role and nature of natural materials: how to grow their application at scale, and to extend our understanding of what comprises a viable building material.

3. Research / London’s Olympic Legacy East Bank Exhibition

   East Bank is opening. At the heart of Queen Elizabeth Park, the project is the UK’s newest cultural quarter. To mark this milestone, Allies and Morrison has curated a new public exhibition.

4. Book / Complex City

   Complex City is a detailed mapping of London’s historic layers, emerging from our work in characterisation studies. The book puts forward a new argument for character-based development.

5. Research / Making Barbican Centre: Grain and Scale

   The design and making of Barbican Centre: Grain and Scale. The experience of representing a project yet to be, and of experimentation and abstraction in architectural model-making.

6. Research / Universities as urban catalysts Urban opportunism and higher education

   Urban opportunism and higher education: How has one urban university, across multiple sites in London, evolved as both a patron of architecture and a participant in urban regeneration?

7. Research / Sustainability Net Zero 2030

   Net zero in the city: call for projects for a GLA research paper that will guide London’s decarbonisation journey.

8. Book / Citymakers: Pragmatics of the Picturesque

   The Picturesque has come to influence how we look at and respond to the city. We investigate what the picturesque is, as both a theory of historic origins and as a practical design tool for urbanists.