一个周末，我突然接到一个电话，自称是迈克尔·威尔福德(Michael Wilford)，要给我一份工作。当时我刚从大学毕业，在Soho的一家小事务所工作。

Of course I thought it was a wind-up and kept asking: “Who is this?” But eventually he convinced me it was really him, James Stirling’s partner. He said he had spoken to my tutor and they needed someone to help on the Carlton Gardens competition they were just beginning.

I jumped at the chance and, a few days later, I arrived at the office, a five-storey Georgian terraced house on Fitzroy Square. There were about 25 of us and it was an unbelievable environment, more like an art gallery than an office. This was late 1988 but they did every drawing by hand – some of them were coloured by Jim himself – then framed and hung them on the walls.

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