Thom Mayne

But I absolutely believe that architecture is a social activity that has to do with some sort of communication or places of interaction, and that to change the environment is to change behaviour. ↗

— Thom Mayne

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The huge problem in our society is the enormous ignorance of the ideas that underlie modern art. ↗

— Thom Mayne

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Descriptions of my work depress me. They make me feel pinned down. ↗

— Thom Mayne

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For me the meaning of my work is much more fluid. ↗

— Thom Mayne

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I've been such an outsider my whole life. ↗

— Thom Mayne

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I've learned that in order to achieve what I wanted, it made more sense to negotiate than to defend the autonomy of my work by pounding my fist on the table. ↗

— Thom Mayne

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Large-scale public projects require the agreement of large numbers of people. ↗

— Thom Mayne

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My buildings don't speak in words but by means of their own spaciousness. ↗

— Thom Mayne

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Our idea of nature is increasingly being determined by scientific developments. And they have become decisive for our image of reality. ↗

— Thom Mayne

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Scientific reality is the modern human condition, and you can see that in the symbolic nature of my work. ↗

— Thom Mayne

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