"Dixon and Jones's work illuminates issues which are central to architecture at the end of the 20th century. In its variety, resourcefulness, undogmatic expressiveness and commitment to the art of building, it is also immensely enjoyable. Beneath the wit and the polish, however, there is a seriousness, a sense of the gravity of the architect's task, which reflects a sound modernist upbringing. There is humour without flippancy, a decorative sense without a loss of discipline. Above all, Dixon and Jones are committed to the art of architecture, a social and a public art but one where the creation of appropriate beauty is a proper ambition and the architect himself is truly a creator and not just a facilitator. Sometimes depicted as the defenders of an alleged "middle ground" in British architecture - a position neither relishes - they are both progressives and traditionalists. As schools and fashions dwindle, Dixon and Jones's stance seems all the more inevitable, even radical, a forward-looking retort to the late 20th century taste for the arbitrary, the dissonant and the purely abstract. They care about the way buildings work and about the way buildings look."