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Simon Henley
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Simon is a principal of London-based architects Henley Halebrown which he founded with Gavin Hale-Brown.
In 2025 Lund Humphries published the monograph Henley Halebrown, Building for Society 2010-2022. This follows an earlier publication in Quart Verlag’s De Aedibus International series. The practice has twice been shortlisted for the RIBA Stirling Prize. First, in 2018 for Chadwick Hall at the University of Roehampton and in 2022, for Hackney New Primary School + 333 Kingsland Road. Chadwick Hall was also nominated for the EU Mies Award in 2019 and won the Fritz Höger Silver Award for Brick Architecture in 2020. Hackney New Primary School + 333 Kingsland Road also won the RIBA Neave Brown Award for Housing in 2022.
Simon studied at the Universities of Liverpool and Oregon, USA. He combines practice with teaching, writing and research, and is the author of The Architecture of Parking (Thames & Hudson, 2007) and Redefining Brutalism (RIBA Publications, 2017). Recent publications include ‘Façade Studies’ in The Hybrid Practitioner (Leuven University Press, 2022) and “On Not Living in a Victorian Terrace House” in Part of a City, The Work of Neave Brown Architect (Canalside Press, 2022).
Simon is a Trustee of DoCoMoMo UK, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and Brother of the Art Workers Guild and chaired the RIBA Awards Group 2024-2025.