In 1997 two architects set out to rethink Lagos,an African megacity that had been largely abandoned by the state. Amid the apparent chaos and crime, they discovered remarkable patterns of organisation. Two decades later, or Rem Koolhaas and Kunlé Adeyemi discuss the past,present and future of the city – and reveal why their own project never saw the light of dayGuardian Cities: In the late 1990s, you worked in Lagos on a project that was never published. Why not, and what was the city like then?Rem Koolhaas: When we went in the late 1990s,Nigeria was still in a dictatorship. So we didn’t depart with a mission. It started really with a sort of blankness and open-endedness.
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Source: theguardian.com