Meet the commissioners: Simon Wyatt

By Simon Wyatt2023-02-28T06:00:00

Simon Wyatt talks about the need to improve building quality, collaboration and diversity

Building magazine is 180 years old this year. What lessons about the built environment should we take from the past?

If there’s one great lesson that we as an industry should take from the past, I think it’s not to overlook the advantages of simplicity when it comes to design.

We’ve become obsessed with technology and drive for efficiency, and we’ve forgotten the basics of space, volume, mass, light and passive ventilation. We should instead bring it back to basics, focusing on passive building form and function, with a fabric first approach to design.

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