Tony Godwin founded FCD Architecture in North London in 2004. The practice is now based in the Rutland village of Whitwell and works, in the main, within a 30 miles radius of the office.The first letters of the practice name are taken from the three essentials of architecture established by Sir Henry Wotton in his 1624 treatise on the architecture of the English country house – F irmness, C ommodity and D elight.