Not Many Architects Have The Luxury To

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.

I Am Incredibly Bad At Predicting The Future; I Am Only Smart Enough To Observe The Present And Listen To My Intuition About Tendencies.

The Thing Is That I Have A Really Intense, Almost Compulsive Need To Record. But It Doesn't End There, Because What I Record Is Somehow Transformed Into A Creative Thing. There Is A Continuity. Recording Is The Beginning Of A Conceptual Production. I Am Somehow Collapsing The Two - Recording And Producing - Into A Single Event.

Beauty Isn't What I'm Primarily Interested In [in Architecture]. I Think Appropriateness Is More Important.

When We Went In The Late 1990s, Nigeria Was Still In A Dictatorship. So We Didn't Go With A Mission. It Started Really With A Sort Of Blankness And Open-endedness.