On Monday I went to a discussion between Matthew Blunderfield whose father, I was told, is a psychoanalysis and John Tuomey, the Irish architect and partner in O’Donnell + Tuomey, architects of V&A East and much else, particularly the magical Glucksman Gallery for University College, Cork.

Tuomey has published the second volume of his autobiography, Middle Quarter, which includes a certain amount about his professional life with more about his interior life and his wide-ranging interests in art, literature, music, Rome, Greece and Connemara.

He writes beautifully and one learns a lot about the processes of archiecture beyond the purely architectural.