I Wanted To Disconnect From Contemporary Architecture

I Like Fashion, Whether Or Not It's Overpriced, Because It Creates A Sense Of The Sublime With Relatively Few Means.

When Air Conditioning, Escalators, And Advertising Appeared, Shopping Expanded Its Scale, But Also Limited Its Spontaneity. And It Became Much More Predictable, Almost Scientific. What Had Once Been The Most Surprising Became The Most Manipulated.

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

Manhattan Has No Choice But The Skyward Extrusion Of The Grid Itself; Only The Skyscraper Offers Business The Wide-open Spaces Of A Man-made Wild West, A Frontier In The Sky.

Nigeria [in 1990] Was All Rumour, An Unbelievable Amount Of Rumour - Largely About Crime And Almost Mythical Manifestations Of Evil.