"On the strength of Woolf's very beautiful, recently completed work in Hampstead, London... I am convinced that this is a very talented, exceptionally sensitive and intelligent architect."

“With Jonathan Woolf I have conversations that are based more on ideas than on experience. It’s about generating things and less about telling each other things. This is why we are friends. As an architect he is rooted in the urban tradition of elegant and calm English architecture, but nevertheless his oeuvre is characterized by a vigorous dialectic. I have visited his “Brick Leaf House” and his “Painted House”. They oscillate between anonymity and refinement. Two very beautiful pieces of architecture. In the distinguished new English movement of ”invisible architecture” Jonathan is the sharpest and most spirited one. He stands for what I understand as English sophistication.”

"The subterranean pool astonishes, not least for the way natural light is channelled down to dramatize the space. This is the one truly extravagant gesture in the project, which, though (at £2,3000,000) beyond the pockets of most Londoners, has significance for the broad field of house design in the capital, not least for its revisiting of the themes of community and privacy that preoccupied progressive housing design forty or more years ago."

"Woolf Architects have arrived where they are by way of a series of smaller projects. Many of these I recognised when interviewing from the images and models scattered in their studio and found them still propositional and fresh. Each is eminently habitable, contains original ideas and says something powerfully intelligent about the world around it. The assured realisation and the narratives that sort, combine and explain the world around each of them are fundamental strengths of Woolf's practice...Brick Leaf House is a statement of real capacity from Woolf Architects that places it among the most interesting architects of its generation."

“As one of an older generation that used to think Corbusier had the final answer, I am constantly having to revise my ideas since the beginning of the twenty-first century. Nowadays we have had to get accustomed to a new kind of expressionism, a kind of no-holds-barred radicalism, affected to a large extent by the conceptualism of contemporary art. What matters with Libeskind is his narrative, with Hadid is her unbridled dynamism, with Koolhaas is his surrealism. With Woolf we have a clear originality that eschews any over-riding ideology, but for all its understatement projects a hidden strength. It’s a quality that I feel grateful for.”

"Woolf Architects has made a plausible and elegant response to the programme and site and create an important project in the context of a new British architecture which is concerned again with materiality and the beauty of simple details. Woolf's name is one to remember."