A lot of people "discovered" him via Antonov, who never hid the fact that he was quoting Woods. Sometimes boldly, sometimes lightly seasoned: HL2, Dishonored.

On the first level there's the visual: bright, memorable deconstruction, broken form, deliberately fractured rhythm. On the second there's the real Woods, far darker. He was a theorist and revelled in his idea of an "architecture of war" — theory can raise far heavier questions than practice is capable of digesting and building.

One of his books, for instance, is about the principle of "radical reconstruction," discussing the problem of Sarajevo. There was already an enormous amount of destruction there by 1996, and the contemporary rhyme suggests itself.

"New kinds of space, woven into the existing Cartesian constructive system, create a dialectic between the timeless and the temporal, a network of the unknown that inspires dialogue and innovation."

Inspiring, and true.

Woods wrote until his death; his last blog post is August 2012. He died in October.