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Anthony Brooks : Principal Architect, Managing Director
Anthony Brooks graduated from the University of Edinburgh in 1984 with a Diploma in Architecture and a Masters Degree (Upper Second Class Honours) in Architecture. During his final two years at Edinburgh he concentrated his study on Housing, Theatre Design and Sports Stadia.
After graduating from Edinburgh University, Mr. Brooks worked with award winning firms Baxter Clarke and Paul (Glasgow) and subsequently with Reiach and Hall Architects (Edinburgh) under whose mentorship he completed his Membership of the Royal Institute of British Architects in 1985.
In Barbados, he took up a position with one of the island’s leading architectural practices where, after one year ,he was named an Associate of the company. He remained with that practice for a further four years before founding Tony Brooks Architects Ltd.
Mr. Brooks is also an Honours Graduate from The Cave Hill Campus of The University of the West Indies and a member of the Barbados Institute of Architects.
Mr. Brooks believes that, just as technology and innovation drove the development of architecture through the centuries, it will continue to do so unabatedly in the future. In that regard, he holds that the profession must embrace change and re-engineer itself if it is to remain relevant in the market place.
In that regard, he has championed the wholesale adoption of building information modelling (BIM) technologies in the company’s workflows with the use of Bentley AECOsim Building Designer. Indeed, he is arguably one of the few practitioners of this software technology in the Caribbean.
Mr. Brooks is a PADI Rescue Diver, a keen Ballroom and Latin dancing enthusiast and an avid Freemason.
Alana Brooks : Associate Architect
A pre-occupation with nature , an obsession with avant-garde creatives and a belief that participation in societal issues makes all the difference describes the unusual interests of Alana Brooks.
Alana Brooks’ studies, personal, professional life have proven to be a reflection of how these interests can converge.
A B. Sc graduate in Social Sciences from the University of the West Indies and a Master of Architecture graduate from the University of Toronto, Alana Brooks remains involved in the academic environment as an Instructor at two of Barbados' tertiary educational institutions. In addition , Alana seeks to develop a design practice which harps on the interaction between the arts and the sciences and which enables her to participate and collaborate with the change-makers in society.