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

Beauty isn't what I'm primarily interested in [in architecture]. I think appropriateness is more important.

Any architectural project we do takes at least four or five years, so increasingly there is a discrepancy between the acceleration of culture and the continuing slowness of architecture.

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

As an architect, I always have mixed feelings. On the one hand, your fingers are itching. As a human being, you are happy to participate in the indolence.

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

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.