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

Manhattan has generated a shameless architecture that has been loved in direct proportion to its defiant lack of self-hatred, has been respected exactly to the degree that it went too far.

If you have this reputation you can sit back and endure it, or you can try to do things with it.

When we went in the late 1990s, Nigeria was still in a dictatorship. So we didn't go with a mission. It started really with a sort of blankness and open-endedness.

The areas of consensus shift unbelievably fast; the bubbles of certainty are constantly exploding.

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

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