Lagos Was Not Very Inviting Even To

Everyone Is Talking About Sustainability And Resilience, Yet All That Knowledge Is Thrown In The Bin. [lagos Is] A Unique Case, But Also A Test Case. It's Unbelievably Unique, But Also It's Now Considered With A Number Of Really Generic Opinions, Generic Solution, Generic Expectations.

The Real Thing We Tried To Look At Is What Happens To A Society When The State Is Absent. At That Point, The State Had Really Withdrawn From Lagos; The City Was Left To Its Own Devices, Both In Terms Of Money And Services. That, By Definition, Created An Unbelievable Proliferation Of Independent Agency: Each Citizen Needed To Take, In Any Day, Maybe 400 Or 500 Independent Decisions On How To Survive That Extremely Complex System.

As More And More Architecture Is Finally Unmasked As The Mere Organization Of Flow - Shopping Centers, Airports - It Is Evident That Circulation Is What Makes Or Breaks Public Architecture.

Manhattan Is An Accumulation Of Possible Disasters That Never Happen.

Any Architectural Project We Do Takes At Least Four Or Five Years, So Increasingly There Is A Discrepancy Between The Acceleration Of Culture And The Continuing Slowness Of Architecture.