Escape from the architecture ghetto is one of the major drivers and has been from the very beginning.

Find optimism in the inevitable.

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

That has been my entire life story. Running against the current and running with the current. Sometimes running with the current is underestimated. The acceptance of certain realities doesn’t preclude idealism. It can lead to certain breakthroughs.

In this branch of utopian real estate, architecture is no longer the art of designing buildings so much as the brutal skyward extrusion of whatever site the developer has managed to assemble.

The acceptance of certain realities doesn't preclude idealism. It can lead to certain breakthroughs.

The work in S, M, L, XL was almost suicidal. It required so much effort that our office almost went bankrupt.