Is this also why you are interested in Asia? I’m thinking particularly of your collaboration with Hans Ulrich Obrist on the book Project Japan: Metabolism Talks …?

Yes, in particular China and Japan are very important countries for me. Japan, for being the first non-Western country where there was an architectural avant-garde. My interest in Metabolism is an interest in how globalisation rearranged architectural areas of initiative, in the sense that you can no longer claim that the Western city is the model that fits all. I was interested in how this end of the Western hegemony was already announced in Japan in the ’60s.