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

Architecture is a hazardous mixture of omnipotence and impotence. It is by definition a c h a o t i c a d v e n t u r e... In other words, the utopian enterprise.

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

Find optimism in the inevitable.

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

There's something really interesting about current urbanism: the only model is the universal model, and there is increasingly incapacity to consider the virtues and the qualities that are there, and then to build on them. The only thing is complete transformation.

That has been another interesting discovery: that basically a city [Lagos] could recover from a really deep, deep, deep pit.