Lagos Was The Ultimate Dysfunctional City -

Lagos Has Also Had A Particular Effect On My Career. I Was There Early, And Although It Was A Courageous Step To Go There And Invest On This Scale - I Went There Maybe 20 Times - It's Also Been Also Super-controversial. There's An Old School Of Thought That Somebody Like Me Has No Place To Go There.because Of Colonialism And So On.

When We Went In The Late 1990s, Nigeria Was Still In A Dictatorship. So We Didn't Go With A Mission. It Started Really With A Sort Of Blankness And Open-endedness.

Beauty Isn't What I'm Primarily Interested In [in Architecture]. I Think Appropriateness Is More Important.

Journalists Seem Mostly Interested In What Brand Of Shoes I Wear.

The Metropolis Strives To Reach A Mythical Point Where The World Is Completely Fabricated By Man, So That It Absolutely Coincides With His Desires.