5 minutes with… Gavin Henderson, principal director, Stanton Williams

By Gavin Henderson 2020-02-07T06:00:00

Gavin Henderson tells Building about Churchill’s famous words, his favourite building from Ethiopia and slow food

What would you change about the industry?

We need to move beyond best intentions – which includes in our own office – to achieve gender balance in what remains a male-dominated industry.

Why did you choose construction as a career?

My first passion was archaeology, before slipping into architecture. I started by wanting to understand how cultures of the past had shaped their environment, then realised that by contributing to today’s environment I could help shape the culture of tomorrow. The relationship between people and their environment fascinates me – neatly summed up by Winston Churchill: “We shape our buildings, and afterwards our buildings shape us.”

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