“Utilitarian, functional hard spaces and corridors have simply dropped off the page. They are underadvocated, underfunded, and underappreciated, and their impoverishment has become what we expect to see in a city.”
Building Design
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“The economic climate means the industry needs maximum certainty on the future direction of government policy to justify any investment in sustainability, and this was slow to happen last year.”
Architects’ Journal
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“Henley is hypercritical of the current obsession with superficial glitz and infantile shape-making which affects architecture. Instead, he is more concerned with thinking about the plan.”
The Guardian
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“He established rules: design a house that could be built with $10,000 in materials and $10,000 in labor. Says Freear, "It's all about the cost of every nail and every stud." Because these houses are supposed to be replicable prototypes, big architectural flourishes of the sort that might be laboriously fabricated by highly motivated students but not by ordinary contractors were discouraged.”
Metropolitan Home
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