John Simpson is one of the leading architects in Europe who has returned in recent years to the classical language of architecture, with all its richness, subtlety, and historic resonances. His public and private works show how this language, though abandoned by the Modernists, lends itself with particular ease to the incorporation of the latest developments in technology. Describing a wide range of work from furniture design to town-planning, this beautifully illustrated book gives pride of place to his principal commission so far, the new Queen's Gallery at Buckingham Palace, a major new center for the visual arts in London, opened by Her Majesty the Queen in May 2002 as part of the celebrations of her Golden Jubilee.