Buildings for me represent opportunities of agency, transformation, and storytelling. They are not just artifacts. There is this big tradition of bui….

Buildings are deeply emotive structures which form our psyche. People think they're just things they maneuver through, but the makeup of a person is ….

The thing about architecture is that it's an art [you] simply learn more by doing more. It's one of those things that is really not an art about thin….

The houses [my first project in London] were reactions to the condition of the city and my frustrations with the norms that were being played out. In….

What I resist is techniques. I find techniques very problematic. So when critics talk about my work in those terms, I find that they miss the conditi….

For me, architecture is a social act..

I got into architecture because I was searching for a way to produce in the world. I went to art school and thought I would do it through art, but I ….

In some conditions, the architecture of textile is more relevant than in other conditions or the opacity of the material form. Pattern in the world o….

In a way, going to Africa allowed me to see possibilities that sometimes seem impossible in certain conditions. It also allowed me to see opportuniti….

The first 10 years, I was just building just to understand what I was doing and I didn't trust my intuition to just produce. Then, in the last five y….

Context is so important, not to mimic but to become part of the place. I wanted a building that acknowledges its surroundings..

In a way, I feel I have enough tools and knowledge now that when I build it has a very specific agency that's very conscious. It's no longer speculat….

If you just live in New York and you only know New York, you know a certain kind of condition of formality and informality. By being able to go to an….

The museum in D.C. is really a narrative museum - the nature of a people and how you represent that story. Whereas the Studio Museum is really a cont….

I'm totally into architecture for all strata of society. High design should not just be for rich people..

Africa is an extraordinary opportunity at the moment.