他年轻时博览群书，一心想成为一个诗人。但是作为伦敦一位建筑师的助手，他学习和从事的是建筑，还获得过一次设计奖。

• In his youth he read much and cherished the dream of becoming a poet,but he studied and practised architecture as assistant to a London architect,winning a prize for design.