Alison Brooks discusses questions of city regeneration and urban culture in the context of ABA's competition winning Folkestone Performing Arts Centre and projects in Liverpool and Milton Keynes. Alison Brooks moved to London from Canada in 1989 and founded ABA in 1996. Describing their approach as cross-fertilisation, the practice recently received the Stephen Lawrence Prize for Wrap House as well as awards for Accordia, Cambridge and Salt House in Essex. ABA is featured in the Phaidon Atlas of Contemporary World Architecture, and represented Britain at the 2004 Sao Paulo Biennale of Architecture and the Pan-American Biennale in Ecuador. Alison Brooks has lectured in North America, Europe and throughout the UK.