Simon Henley is a principal of London-based architecture practice Henley Halebrown, recipient of the RIBA Neave Brown Award. In 2022, and twice shortlisted for the RIBA Stirling Prize in 2018 and 2022. In 2018 Quart Verlag published a monograph on the practice in the De Aedibus International series. Simon studied at the University of Liverpool and the University of Oregon. He combines practice with teaching, writing, and research, and is the author of The Architecture of Parking (2007) and Redefining Brutalism (2017). He regularly contributes conference papers, chapters, and articles for publication, most recently on John Meunier, Ted Cullinan, and Neave Brown. He is a Brother of the Art Workers Guild and the current chair of the RIBA Awards Group. 

Simon's talk, 'Association + Attunement', will explore the impact of climate and culture on how we design, build, dwell in, and react to our built environment. Buildings shape the city, its thoroughfares, precincts, passages, courts, and gardens, particularly through the porosity and permeability of the facade's surface. With each design, we ask how spatial morphology and facade configurations can engender the association of people and individual attunement to culture and climate.

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