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Alison Killing became an architect because she likes making things. She read architecture at King’s College, Cambridge and Oxford Brookes and on graduating was shortlisted for the RIBA Silver Medal. She then went to work for a number of international design offices, including Buro Happold and Kees Christiaanse, on architecture, public space and urbanism. She started Killing Architects in 2010. When she isn’t designing, Alison can often be found kickboxing, or practising taekwondo.
Killing Architects is a studio for design and research in architecture and urbanism, based in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. It was founded by Alison Killing in 2010. We work mostly at a bigger scale – architectural design work on larger, mixed-use buildings or developing strategies for neighborhoods and cities. Some of our design work: a new building for the Rietveld Academy, an art school in Amsterdam; an urban development strategy for the harbour neighborhood in Assen, the Netherlands; and a small recent project at Roskilde Festival in Denmark.
We also do research, events, films and exhibitions that explore issues within the built environment. Everything happens somewhere and while the built environment is shaped by its social, economic and political context, the reverse is also to an extent true – the way we shape our cities and buildings influences what happens in them. We’re good at working across disciplines, with groups who don’t have a built environment background, bringing an architectural and urbanist perspective to projects where the built environment is important. One example of this is the (re)constructing the city project, which looks at how relevant urban design tools can be integrated into the work of humanitarian agencies post-disaster. We’re also busy looking at financial models for projects which use temporarily vacant buildings and sites, since funding is the main reason these projects fail.
Watch Alison’s TED talk on architecture for death and dying.
Killing Architects is a studio for design and research in architecture and urbanism, based in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. It was founded by Alison Killing in 2010. We work mostly at a bigger scale – architectural design work on larger, mixed-use buildings or developing strategies for neighborhoods and cities. Some of our design work: a new building for the Rietveld Academy, an art school in Amsterdam; an urban development strategy for the harbour neighborhood in Assen, the Netherlands; and a small recent project at Roskilde Festival in Denmark.
We also do research, events, films and exhibitions that explore issues within the built environment. Everything happens somewhere and while the built environment is shaped by its social, economic and political context, the reverse is also to an extent true – the way we shape our cities and buildings influences what happens in them. We’re good at working across disciplines, with groups who don’t have a built environment background, bringing an architectural and urbanist perspective to projects where the built environment is important. One example of this is the (re)constructing the city project, which looks at how relevant urban design tools can be integrated into the work of humanitarian agencies post-disaster. We’re also busy looking at financial models for projects which use temporarily vacant buildings and sites, since funding is the main reason these projects fail.
Watch Alison’s TED talk on architecture for death and dying.