He likes rooms. Lots of them. Rooms for cooking, rooms for sitting, rooms for reading and rooms for watching TV — all of which might sound fairly normal except for one crucial detail: Stuart likes to keep these rooms separate. In the realm of contemporary architecture — which has been more or less dominated by open-plan design since the mid-20th century — that makes Stuart, along with his colleagues at Owen and Vokes and Peters in Brisbane, something of an anachronism.