There is no plateau of resting or stabilising. Once you are interested in how things evolve, you have a kind of never-ending perspective, because it means you are interested in articulating the evolution, and therefore the potential change, the potential redefinition.

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.

Designs are increasingly winning competitions because they are literally green, and because somewhere they feature a small windmill.

As more and more architecture is finally unmasked as the mere organization of flow - shopping centers, airports - it is evident that circulation is what makes or breaks public architecture.

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

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