The stronger the identity, the more it imprisons, the more it resists expansion, interpretation, renewal, contradiction.

Sustainability has become an ornament.

Lagos was not very inviting even to Lagosians. It was considered a no-go zone, almost in its entirety.

We say we want to create beauty, identity, quality, singularity. And yet, maybe in truth these cities that we have are desired. Maybe their very characterlessness provides the best context for living.

Journalists seem mostly interested in what brand of shoes I wear.

Each building has to be beautiful, but cheap and fast, but it lasts forever. That is already an incredible battery of seemingly contradictory demands. So yes, I'm definitely perhaps contradictory person, but I operate in very contradictory times.

Miami Beach is a completely interesting hybrid because it is, on the one hand, a resort and, on the other hand, a real city. This condition of city and water on two sides I think is really amazing. And in the heart of that city, it has put an enormous convention center, an enormous physical presence.