David Cole is a recently retired architect who lives in Melbourne, Australia. Throughout his career as a design director with a major Australian-based international architectural practice, he specialised in the design of large-scale urban residential, hospitality, commercial, and civic projects. In over 30 years of practice he has designed projects throughout Australia, Japan, Thailand, China, United Arab Emirates, and New Zealand. David is an authority on the architecture of the English Arts and Crafts Movement. He is the author of two previous books on Arts and Crafts subjects: The Art and Architecture of C.F.A.Voysey, published in 2015, and the best-selling architectural biography Sir Edwin Lutyens: The Arts and Crafts Houses, published in 2017.