For me, exploring the art of management has been an extraordinary privilege and incredible fun.

WSJ: Effective Management Lies in Relationships

The Cappella Palatina, or Palatine Chapel, is an extraordinary blend of Norman, Byzantine and Arab art, and a few streets away is the castle of La Zisa, built for a Norman king by Arab craftsmen.

BBC: Sicily, an island of secrets

He spins an extraordinary tale of great industrial wealth, compulsive acquisition of art, decorated with complicated sub-plots involving serial adultery and divorce. (His failure to decide whether this is industrial history, art history or good gossip must explain the meaningless title.) Thyssen had five wives, though Mr Litchfield's account of these marriages was at the mercy of Thyssen's memory, which was impaired by alcoholism and the arrogance of wealth.

ECONOMIST: The Thyssens

What his analysis of this archival material gives us is a rewarding and long-overdue reappraisal of an extraordinary architect, humanist and artist who did much to redefine the art of building for the 21st century.

WSJ: Notes from the Archive: James Frazer Stirling, Architect and Teacher, at the Yale Center for British Art | Postmodernism's Pivotal Figure | By Ada Louise Huxtable