Day 87 of the 100 Day Studio: Simon Henley (Henley Halebrown) discusses the work of Edward ‘Ted’ Cullinan, a pioneer of architecture founded on ideas about ecology, sustainability and social responsiveness, and former colleague of Denys Lasdun. He is best-known for the Downland Gridshell (2002) at the Weald and Downland Living Museum in West Sussex, which was the first timber building of its kind in the UK. Cullinan chose to find art in the practical requirements of building. His record of mediating between the tempered interior and the elements, and the ways he configured and constructed his architecture to make buildings that we can quite literally understand leaves a vitally important legacy. Simon Henley is a principal of Henley Halebrown and combines practice with teaching, writing and research. He is the author of The Architecture of Parking (2007) and Redefining Brutalism (2017). He is a postgraduate unit master at the University of Kingston.
100 DAY STUDIO
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