London's Sunday Times suggests that there's a reason for this. "He is a reticent man, not involved in politics like [Richard] Rogers. Nor yet has he become a public figure like [Norman] Foster. He prefers to sit in his studio and get on with the business of pushing the boundaries forward. He has an obsession with detail. He and his partners have been known to spend insane lengths of time determining the relative sizes of a bolt and its washer." Grimshaw's two heroes are Buckminster Fuller and the great Isambard Kingdom Brunel (whose father, Marc Isambard, won the competition to build the Capitol in Washington, D.C., but was passed over when another plan was deemed more economic). To visit Grimshaw's Web site, click here.