We hope that our architecture gows principally from our experience and sensitivity to the reality of living - the biggest trap for all specialist occupations is to become disconnnected from the wider world.

Nevertheless, we are specialists, with particular training and focus upon architecture, and the skills, insights and achievements of others have been the building blocks of our understanding and practice. The following are some of the architects and other experiences which have helped inspire us. Click the names for more on each.

Christopher Alexander, Leon Krier, Lovely, Lovely Buildings, Alvar Aalto and the Royal Festival Hall, Voysey and Lutyens, Richard MacCormac and David Lea, Herman Herzberger, Brunelleschi and the Pazzi Chapel. For more, look here.