Amin Taha is an architect working in London. I met him once
when he was just starting out and working and living in two rooms. Absolutely
no privacy; couple of gorgeous girls lounging around, wife, secretary,
co-workers? No idea. He was moderately interested in me and what I was selling
but he was just doing kitchen extensions in those days and had nothing I could
really get involved with. Look at him now: award winning buildings, mega hotels
and holiday complexes around the world; a really amazing website [here if you want to look] and an office with
a prestige address. I thought he was charm personified back then, never thought
for a moment that charm could get you this far, so fast.
His buildings represent what Philip Roth called the ecstasy of sanctimony and it cannot
be defeated by analytic rigour.
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