A collaborative effort by friends, colleagues and family on the occasion of the 70th birthday of Singapore architect and intellectual William Lim. Willy, a director of Select Books, received an Hon. Doctorate in Architecture Honoris Causa from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in May 2002.  An extract of the citation reads..."Mr. William Lim is the doyen of radical architects in Asia. He has pioneered every phase of design innovation in Asia since the 1960s.  For each decade since he began to practise he  has been involved in designs that scope what is  possible, but was previously unthinkable ... He has  been the social conscience of architecture in the region throughout his career, arguing in every kind of public forum, lobbying government, working in committee and publishing widely...".