wouldn?t have otherwise imagined. Lots of people of course don?t think that an architect can necessarily do that. Architects would like to be given free rein by clients and the community. But often the journey to a modern Australian building is very troubled. Dennis Ruzzene: The day we moved in, we had two neighbours from next door in the units come knocking on the door, I answered the door and she just said: "you?ve built a factory next to me, now you?ve gone and painted it black", she said "you must have the devil in you". Tina Engelen, designer: For Ian and I, it?s just our internal belief, it?s our religion almost. You can compromise a little bit, you?ve got to be realistic as well. There is a balance of profit and design, or function and design, but on the whole we?d really rather just stay home from work for the day. Our aim is to go to work and design the buildings that we truly believe in. Ian Moore, architect: It produces an architecture which looks different to your typical brick and tile house and I think there is perhaps some stigma attached to that still, that people want to look like the Joneses next door and so they have their brick and tile house so they are not the odd one out. Architects are always fighting the timidity of public taste. It?s this struggle that continues to throw up challenging buildings. Today more architects than ever are stretching