Thom Mayne Quotes
Top 29 wise famous quotes and sayings by Thom Mayne
Thom Mayne Famous Quotes & Sayings
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The age of recalcitrance is over. The best solution is no longer just to regurgitate a 19th-century design.
I enjoy working with people. I understand that as a necessity. And clearly that's something that develops as you get older. And I've grown into that.
Our idea of nature is increasingly being determined by scientific developments. And they have become decisive for our image of reality.
I'm a private person by nature. I live in my brain half the time, not the world, and I'm not a natural negotiator. But I've learned to negotiate.
Do I provoke as a method of investigation? Of course. That's the essence of architecture. Do I do it with gusto? I do.
Architecture is a result of a process of asking questions and testing them and re-interrogating and changing in a repetitive way.
Scientific reality is the modern human condition, and you can see that in the symbolic nature of my work.
New York is this cacophony - a collection of radical differences, an agreement of non sequiturs. The diversity and intensity are startling.
Art in progress. MAK has occupied a unique and valuable space as international host for discourse between the arts and architecture.
I'm not a tabula rasa type. In some ways, the more constraints I have, the work is more interesting to me.
Somehow, architecture alters the way we think about the world and the way we behave. Any serious architecture, as a litmus test, has to be that.
Find a place that you are comfortable with. Don't be afraid to make mistakes. Make a lot of mistakes.
We only exist in terms of how we think we exist. Meaning every cultural development is fabricated and can be fabricated.
You can't make anything authentic by asking people what they want because they don't know what they want. That's what they're looking at you for.
I lived in a state of rage from 12 to 20. Until college, I was beyond an outsider. I was a voyeur of life.
Architecture is the story of how we see ourselves. It is the architect's job to service everyday life.
I think all good architecture should challenge you, make you start asking questions. You don't have to understand it. You may not like it. That's OK.
Architecture is a negotiated art, and it's highly political, and if you want to make buildings, there is diplomacy required.