Influence Is A Very Unpleasant Subject And

The Areas Of Consensus Shift Unbelievably Fast; The Bubbles Of Certainty Are Constantly Exploding.

Architecture Is A Rare Collective Profession: It's Always Exercised By Groups. There Is An Essential Modesty, Which Is A Complete Contradiction To The Notion Of A Star.

The Real Thing We Tried To Look At Is What Happens To A Society When The State Is Absent. At That Point, The State Had Really Withdrawn From Lagos; The City Was Left To Its Own Devices, Both In Terms Of Money And Services. That, By Definition, Created An Unbelievable Proliferation Of Independent Agency: Each Citizen Needed To Take, In Any Day, Maybe 400 Or 500 Independent Decisions On How To Survive That Extremely Complex System.

The Work In S, M, L, Xl Was Almost Suicidal. It Required So Much Effort That Our Office Almost Went Bankrupt.

Our Society Can No Longer Tolerate Ugliness. You See That In Cars, Sofas And Women. [but] Ugliness Also Has A Right To Exist.