What is now called "green architecture" is an opportunistic caricature of a much deeper consideration of the issues related to sustainability that ar….

I studied in London in 1968. Our school had a separate department of tropical architecture. Of course it was totally unfashionable, partly because no….

Everyone is talking about sustainability and resilience, yet all that knowledge is thrown in the bin. [Lagos is] a unique case, but also a test case.….

We live in an almost perfect stillness and work with incredible urgency..

Manhattan is an accumulation of possible disasters that never happen..

Any architectural project we do takes at least four or five years, so increasingly there is a discrepancy between the acceleration of culture and the….

As an architect, I always have mixed feelings. On the one hand, your fingers are itching. As a human being, you are happy to participate in the indol….

I wanted to disconnect from contemporary architecture.

The good is not a category that interests me..

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 o….

The people from the suburbs are bringing along their suburban values: cleanliness, orderliness, safety - dullness, in other words. As a result, urban….

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

As more and more architecture is finally unmasked as the mere organization of flow - shopping centers, airports - it is evident that circulation is w….

When shopping was still connected to the street it was also an intensification and articulation of the street. Now it has become utterly independent ….

Not many architects have the luxury to reject significant things..

At that time [90th in Lagos], if you drove through the city, you drove through a foreground that always seemed to be incredibly dramatic and incredib….

All important architecture of the last century was strongly influenced by political systems. Look at the Soviet system, with its constructivism and S….

The architecture per se isn't at fault. The more important factor, in my view, is the political neglect of these areas, which have essentially been c….

Why I talked about political correctness: the colonial is now such a major taboo that any achievement of the colonial period, or any generosity impli….

The Metropolis strives to reach a mythical point where the world is completely fabricated by man, so that it absolutely coincides with his desires..

Without a tighter union, Europe will disintegrate.