Just from reading this thread, it seems like Tom's "bunker style" is the product of the businessman-Tom, the craftsman-Tom, and the artist-Tom, with the three parts working together, in some kind of equal measure. The first, because the style is influenced by the client and by the managing of staff; the second, because the style is influenced by the equipment and by practical necessity (i.e. the need for bunkers to actually work, and not collapse); and the third because the style is influenced by the best of what Tom has seen and loved, and by what he wants to create.
Are the bunker styles of all/most/few architects past and present the product of a similar 3-part harmony?
Peter
TE - Just to say, what some people forget is that the Coyote's full name was "Wily. E. Coyote, Super-Genius" - at least, that's what his businesscard read. And indeed, he WAS a genius, in my opinion. But it wasn't enough. It was NEVER enough....