Simon Henley
Trustee
Simon Henley is a chartered architect and founding director of architects Henley Halebrown, twice shortlisted for the RIBA Stirling Prize in 2018 for Chadwick Hall, University of Roehampton and 2022 for Hackney New Primary School; and recipient of the RIBA Neave Brown Award in 2022.
The practice works on housing, education, healthcare, offices, arts and community projects, balancing opportunities for new building and adaptive reuse.
Simon studied at the University of Liverpool and the University of Oregon, USA.
He combines practice with teaching, writing and research, and is the author of The Architecture of Parking (Thames & Hudson, 2007), which won the RIBA International Book Award for Construction in 2008, and Redefining Brutalism (RIBA Publications, 2017).
Simon has taught at Kingston School of Art, Oxford Brookes, University of Nottingham, University of Southampton, The Bartlett, London Met, University of Liverpool and the University of Oregon; he has lectured internationally and been an external examiner at University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka, University of Nottingham, University of Kent andMackintosh School of Architecture, Glasgow School of Art.
He is Chair of the RIBA Awards Group (2024-2025), a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and Brother of the Art Workers Guild.
He joined the Board of Trustees of Docomomo UK in 2025.