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 At that point, the state had really withdrawn from Lagos; the city was left to its own devices, both in terms of money and services.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.

Our office acts like a kind of educational establishment and we are very careful who we educate.

The City is an addictive machine from which there is no escape

Not many architects have the luxury to reject significant things.

Infrastructure is much more important than architecture.

One cannot completely avoid this landmark character with large buildings such as these. But the city itself is also gigantic.

The Metropolis strives to reach a mythical point where the world is completely fabricated by man, so that it absolutely coincides with his desires.