The City is an addictive machine from which there is no escape.

There are essentially two possibilities. One is to be, shall we say, an average architect and do the same thing everywhere. The other is to let yours….

Talk about beauty and you get boring answers, but talk about ugliness and things get interesting..

Infrastructure is much more important than architecture..

We discovered a person in Lagos who had a fish stall, and within a single square metre she carried two children all the way to Harvard. She supported….

When air conditioning, escalators, and advertising appeared, shopping expanded its scale, but also limited its spontaneity. And it became much more p….

Nigeria was a blank on the map - there weren't even any maps. The US State Department, everyone said don't go there. It was courageous of Harvard Uni….

Criticism per se does not worry me. I've always solicited it as part of the design process..

That has been my entire life story. Running against the current and running with the current. Sometimes running with the current is underestimated. T….

Nobody should be anything, but because I once had a different profession and I'm interested in writing, I took it upon me..

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

The thing is that I have a really intense, almost compulsive need to record. But it doesn't end there, because what I record is somehow transformed i….

Miami Beach is a completely interesting hybrid because it is, on the one hand, a resort and, on the other hand, a real city. This condition of city a….

There's nothing Dutch about my architecture..

It was a book [George Packer written on our presence in Nigeria] that was killed by the response of other people. Which sounds quite cowardly, perhap….

Japan lives with drastic segregation between the sublime, the ugly, and the utterly without qualities. Dominance of the last 2 categories makes mere ….

Architecture is a hazardous mixture of omnipotence and impotence. It is by definition a c h a o t i c a d v e n t u r e... In other words, the utopia….

Lagos was not very inviting even to Lagosians. It was considered a no-go zone, almost in its entirety..

It is not possible to live in this age if you don't have a sense of many contradictory forces..

Let's put it this way: One can be happy or unhappy in a building. But some buildings make us more depressed than others..

Manhattanism is the one urbanistic ideology that has fed, from its conception, on the splendors and miseries of the metropolitan condition—hyper-dens….