He is best remembered today for a number of urbane books that still provide relevant design insight that is concealed in entertaining, subversive sarcasm.
He produced a diverse range of structures including villas, a castle, urbane terraces, commercial warehouses, tenements, and three extraordinary churches.
It has technical pizzazz (split screens, in-camera dialogue) and an urbane wit despite snags like sub-plots with pat endings or a lame pre-interval portion.
