Sustainability Has Become An Ornament.

Not Many Architects Have The Luxury To Reject Significant Things.

Lagos Was Not Very Inviting Even To Lagosians. It Was Considered A No-go Zone, Almost In Its Entirety.

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.

Criticism Per Se Does Not Worry Me. I've Always Solicited It As Part Of The Design Process.

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.