In a script, you have to link various episodes together, you have to generate suspense and you have to assemble things - through editing, for example. It's exactly the same in architecture. Architects also put together spatial episodes to make sequences.

The luxury of our position now is that we can almost assemble any team to address any issue.

We live in an almost perfect stillness and work with incredible urgency.

I wanted to disconnect from contemporary architecture

Talk about beauty and you get boring answers, but talk about ugliness and things get interesting.

In Lagos there's a really strong case to resurrect strong parts. Embedded in all of it are some amazing pieces of planning, amazing pieces of engineering and interaction. For instance, the campus of Lagos University is stunningly beautiful, efficient and generous, and that needs to be recognised and preserved.

The areas of consensus shift unbelievably fast; the bubbles of certainty are constantly exploding.