People Can Inhabit Anything. And They Can

Lagos Was The Ultimate Dysfunctional City - But Actually, In Terms Of All The Initiatives And Ingenuity, It Mobilised An Incredibly Beautiful, Almost Utopian Landscape Of Independence And Agency.

The Word 'celebrity' And The Word 'architect' Are Basically Incompatible.

The Work In S, M, L, Xl Was Almost Suicidal. It Required So Much Effort That Our Office Almost Went Bankrupt.

Nigeria Was A Blank On The Map - There Weren't Even Any Maps. The Us State Department, Everyone Said Don't Go There. It Was Courageous Of Harvard University: The Notion Was That We Would Match Harvard Students With Nigerian Students, So That Every Student Would Have A Guide, Creating A Guarantee Of Intimacy With The City.

We Discovered A Person In Lagos Who Had A Fish Stall, And Within A Single Square Metre She Carried Two Children All The Way To Harvard. She Supported An Unbelievable Escape Of Her Children Into Education. In That Sense It Was A City Completed Pixillated, And Every Pixel Contained Amazing Stories.