Kent Hurley says that Clifford Wiens was able "to distill a building to its essence and to express the distillation in simple floor plans and eye-catching forms", pointing out that Wiens is evidently preoccupied with "rigid and simple geometry" in his "formal and static" plans, but "lightens his seriousness" in the three-dimensional form itself, where he "achieves some of the memorable effects that have enhanced his reputation.""