The Areas Of Consensus Shift

Lagos Has Also Had A Particular Effect On My Career. I Was There Early, And Although It Was A Courageous Step To Go There And Invest On This Scale - I Went There Maybe 20 Times - It's Also Been Also Super-controversial. There's An Old School Of Thought That Somebody Like Me Has No Place To Go There.because Of Colonialism And So On.

It Is Not Possible To Live In This Age If You Don't Have A Sense Of Many Contradictory Forces.

The People From The Suburbs Are Bringing Along Their Suburban Values: Cleanliness, Orderliness, Safety - Dullness, In Other Words. As A Result, Urban Areas Are Being Hollowed Out. Just Look At Times Square In New York. No More Sex Shops, No Drugs, No Homeless People. The Area Is Clinically Clean And Incredibly Dull.

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 Become An Ornament.

There's Nothing Dutch About My Architecture.