In This Branch Of Utopian Real Estate,

The People From The Suburbs Are Bringing Along Their Suburban Values: Cleanliness, Orderliness, Safety - Dullness, In Other Words. As A Result, Urban Areas Are Being Hollowed Out. Just Look At Times Square In New York. No More Sex Shops, No Drugs, No Homeless People. The Area Is Clinically Clean And Incredibly Dull.

Manhattan Has Generated A Shameless Architecture That Has Been Loved In Direct Proportion To Its Defiant Lack Of Self-hatred, Has Been Respected Exactly To The Degree That It Went Too Far.

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.

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.

Lagos Was The Ultimate Dysfunctional City - But Actually, In Terms Of All The Initiatives And Ingenuity, It Mobilised An Incredibly Beautiful, Almost Utopian Landscape Of Independence And Agency.