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I read with interest your article on the Housing Expo in Inverness and visited eagerly on Tuesday 17th August.

The Expo was largely was described with many interesting technologies and construction systems and a few of the results were even beautiful houses. The affordable housing was indeed generous and interesting. The most successful proposition was probably Rural Design's Secret Garden house which one had to admire the efficiency and livability of.

However we disagree on one of the last houses I visited. You write that Oliver Chapman's Skewed house "writhes indignantly around an interior of bizarrely ill-proportioned rooms". This house was one of my favourite houses, with an exterior of amazingly beautiful cedar shingles and two house arrangement that formed a courtyard which, once the garden is planted, will be a very successful outdoor space. The unfinished interiors will I think be calm and reflective once complete were let down by such simple things as the positioning of light bulbs (which also afflicted Brennan and Wilson's lovely house). But this served only to suggest that time was tight and the electrician whisked around sticking in pendants a few hours before the opening...

The Expo was fantastic, everyone should go.