Everyone Is Talking About Sustainability And Resilience,

Lagos Was The Ultimate Dysfunctional City - But Actually, In Terms Of All The Initiatives And Ingenuity, It Mobilised An Incredibly Beautiful, Almost Utopian Landscape Of Independence And Agency.

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

There's Nothing Dutch About My Architecture.

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 Utopian Enterprise.

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 Formal Values, To Invent Strategies For The Distinction Of One Block From Another. The Grid's Two-dimensional Discipline Also Creates Undreamt-of Freedom For Three-dimensional Anarchy. The Grid Defines A New Balance Between Control And De-control In Which The City Can Be At The Same Time Ordered And Fluid, A Metropolis Of Rigid Chaos.