The Areas Of Consensus Shift

Manhattanism Is The One Urbanistic Ideology That Has Fed, From Its Conception, On The Splendors And Miseries Of The Metropolitan Condition—hyper-density—without Once Losing Faith In It As The Basis For A Desirable Modern Culture. Manhattan's Architecture Is A Paradigm For The Exploitation Of Congestion.

We Say We Want To Create Beauty, Identity, Quality, Singularity. And Yet, Maybe In Truth These Cities That We Have Are Desired. Maybe Their Very Characterlessness Provides The Best Context For Living.

We Discovered A Person In Lagos Who Had A Fish Stall, And Within A Single Square Metre She Carried Two Children All The Way To Harvard. She Supported An Unbelievable Escape Of Her Children Into Education. In That Sense It Was A City Completed Pixillated, And Every Pixel Contained Amazing Stories.

As More And More Architecture Is Finally Unmasked As The Mere Organization Of Flow - Shopping Centers, Airports - It Is Evident That Circulation Is What Makes Or Breaks Public Architecture.

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