In Lagos there's a really strong case to resurrect strong parts. Embedded in all of it are some amazing pieces of planning, amazing pieces of enginee….

There's something really interesting about current urbanism: the only model is the universal model, and there is increasingly incapacity to consider ….

Prada is extremely directed in terms of communicating what they like and what they don't like. That is actually extremely pleasant because it clarifi….

But now sustainability is such a political category that it's getting more and more difficult to think about it in a serious way. Sustainability has ….

We know that Las Vegas is junk, but at the same time I think that exactly the same process and ultimately also, perhaps the same logic, attaches itse….

Manhattan has generated a shameless architecture that has been loved in direct proportion to its defiant lack of self-hatred, has been respected exac….

I am incredibly bad at predicting the future; I am only smart enough to observe the present and listen to my intuition about tendencies..

Nigeria [in 1990] was all rumour, an unbelievable amount of rumour - largely about crime and almost mythical manifestations of evil..

The word 'celebrity' and the word 'architect' are basically incompatible..

The Grid makes the history of architecture and all previous lessons of urbanism irrelevant. It forces Manhattan's builders to develop a new system of….

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 ….

Asia is still dominated by skyscrapers. I hope that, in European cities, it will become a declining trend. They were almost never necessary..

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 s….

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

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

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

Sustainability has become an ornament..

Architecture is a dangerous mix of power and importance..

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

Architects work in two ways. One is to respond precisely to a client's needs or demands. Another is to look at what the client asks and reinterpret i….

A building has at least two lives - the one imagined by its maker and the life it lives afterward - and they are never the same..