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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 Incredibly Agonised - Smoking, Burning, Incredible Compression. In The First Year We Stayed On The Ground And Went Everywhere. But Then In Order To Discover Whether This Was The Whole Story, We Rented A Helicopter. And We Began To Understand That This Is Not Chaos But A Highly Modern System That Had Been Abandoned, Then At Some Point Went Into Reversal, Then Slowly Came Out Of It.

What Is Now Called "green Architecture" Is An Opportunistic Caricature Of A Much Deeper Consideration Of The Issues Related To Sustainability That Architecture Has Been Engaged With For Many Years. It Was One Of The First Professions That Was Deeply Concerned With These Issues And That Had An Intellectual Response To Them.

There Is No Plateau Of Resting Or Stabilising. Once You Are Interested In How Things Evolve, You Have A Kind Of Never-ending Perspective, Because It Means You Are Interested In Articulating The Evolution, And Therefore The Potential Change, The Potential Redefinition.

I'd Say That My Profession Ends Where Architectural Thinking Ends - Architectural Thinking In Terms Of Thinking About Programs And Organizational Structure. These Abstractions Play A Role In Many Other Disciplines, And Those Disciplines Are Now Defining Their 'architectures' As Well.

Designs Are Increasingly Winning Competitions Because They Are Literally Green, And Because Somewhere They Feature A Small Windmill.