But his buildings have risen all over the world, from Germany to China, and at present his practice employs some 500 people.
That will test the resourcefulness of farmers not just in Australia but in other great "food bowls" across the world, from Brazil to China, India and the United States.
Expect more calls from around the world for China to allow its currency to rise.
Dozens of governments around the world, from China's to Chile's, have realized this fact and are pouring resources into developing their national innovation muscles like there is no tomorrow.
Until this year, all CGE models were based on tariff data from 1997 and hence attributed all liberalisation since then (such as that coming from China's accession to the World Trade Organisation) to the Doha round.
Astonishingly, it can be cheaper to ship goods to the United States from China than from Central America, according to a World Bank study.
The commitment of China to an export-led growth model, matched by a willingness from rich-world consumers to keep spending, created persistent surpluses in China in particular.
From the Great Wall in China to the World War II battles of Iwo Jima, a cruise-led history lesson can span thousands of years.
They also gain access to a branch network and client list they could never afford to replicate, even after World Trade Organisation rules force China to open its domestic banking market fully from end-2006.
Many smaller pizza companies from all parts of the world also seem to have caught China fever.
Singapore may field three badminton players at the Commonwealth Games who have come from Indonesia, and Hong Kong could have one, in addition to their former world women's singles quarter-finalist Wang Chen, who crossed the border from China to the former British colony.
In 2001, two thirds of shoes imported to the US came from China, says the World Trade Organisation.
One positive trend arising from China's effort to integrate into the world economy, however, is that the public have become more open in expressing themselves and protecting their rights.
There are few diplomatic and economic challenges that can be addressed in the world without having China at the table: from North Korea, to Iran, to Syria, to global economic rebalancing and climate change.
While Pittsburgh produces plenty of skilled graduates--some of whom have traveled from as far as India and China to attend the city's world-class colleges, including Carnegie Mellon University and University of Pittsburgh--the job market, which today primarily consists of health care and technology positions, simply isn't big enough to provide work for all qualified candidates.
Consider: Over the last 20 years China has boomed, taking it from a backwater to the world's second-biggest economy.
The right-hand chart, from the World Bank's latest China Quarterly Update, shows GDP growth relative to its estimated potential growth rate if the economy operated at full capacity.
Netherlands based Association of Students in Economic and Business Science, which helps students find internships around the world, said that the number of students heading to China has risen from no more than 50 in 2002 to 1, 000 this year.
From May China will be visited by a series of foreign leaders going to the World Expo in Shanghai.
That is why companies of all sizes, from all parts of the world, are intensifying their efforts to gain a larger share of the China market.
's first-quarter net income rose 53 percent despite growing generic drug competition as the world's second-largest drugmaker benefited from a gain related to a joint venture with China.
The matches are credited with helping open up China to the world and paved the way for a groundbreaking visit from U.S. President Richard Nixon the following year which forged diplomatic channels between the two countries.
China limits purchases from India, the world's largest rice exporter, due to quality concerns.
China was the world's top-performing real-estate market from 2008 to 2012, according to consultancy Knight Frank.
The World Bank cut its growth forecast for China this year to 7.7% from its May outlook of 8.2%.
But China faces a difficult transition as it moves from being the factory to the world to being an innovation led economy.
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Defending champion Sharapova rallied from 4-1 down in the second set against Zheng Jie to beat China's world No. 43 6-1 7-5 despite making 34 unforced errors in a match featuring 11 breaks of serve.
China's proportion of world GDP has risen from 2.6% in 1980 to 8.5% last year, he added.
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