Evil Can Also Be Beautiful. The Coliseum

We Live In An Almost Perfect Stillness And Work With Incredible Urgency.

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.

When Shopping Was Still Connected To The Street It Was Also An Intensification And Articulation Of The Street. Now It Has Become Utterly Independent - Contained, Controlled, Surveyed.

That Has Been Another Interesting Discovery: That Basically A City [lagos] Could Recover From A Really Deep, Deep, Deep Pit.

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 Cut Off From Other Neighborhoods.