Most Old Cities Are Now Sclerotic Machines

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. It's Unbelievably Unique, But Also It's Now Considered With A Number Of Really Generic Opinions, Generic Solution, Generic Expectations.

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.

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

Most Old Cities Are Now Sclerotic Machines That Dispense Known Qualities In Ever-greater Quantities, Instead Of Laboratories Of The Uncertain. Only The Skyscraper Offers Business The Wide-open Spaces Of A Man-made Wild West, A Frontier In The Sky.

In A Script, You Have To Link Various Episodes Together, You Have To Generate Suspense And You Have To Assemble Things - Through Editing, For Example. It's Exactly The Same In Architecture. Architects Also Put Together Spatial Episodes To Make Sequences.