The word 'celebrity' and the word 'architect' are basically incompatible.

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

Infrastructure is much more important than architecture.

I think one of the important evolutions is that we no longer feel compulsively the need to argue, or to justify things on a kind of rational level. We are much more willing to admit that certain things are completely instinctive and others are really intellectual.

Nigeria was a blank on the map - there weren't even any maps. The US State Department, everyone said don't go there. It was courageous of Harvard University: the notion was that we would match Harvard students with Nigerian students, so that every student would have a guide, creating a guarantee of intimacy with the city.

You need to look at inequality as a typical condition of modern society.

I like fashion, whether or not it's overpriced, because it creates a sense of the sublime with relatively few means.