Architecture is a negotiated art, and it's highly political, and if you want to make buildings, there is diplomacy required. — Thom Mayne Copy Share Image
Architecture is a result of a process of asking questions and testing them and re-interrogating and changing in a repetitive way. — Thom Mayne Copy Share Image
Art in progress. MAK has occupied a unique and valuable space as international host for discourse between the arts and architecture. — Thom Mayne Copy Share Image
My buildings don't speak in words but by means of their own spaciousness. — Thom Mayne Copy Share Image
Architecture is the story of how we see ourselves. It is the architect's job to service everyday life. — Thom Mayne Copy Share Image
Somehow, architecture alters the way we think about the world and the way we behave. Any serious architecture, as a litmus test,… — Thom Mayne Copy Share Image
Do I provoke as a method of investigation? Of course. That's the essence of architecture. Do I do it with gusto? I… — Thom Mayne Copy Share Image
Architecture is a social activity that has to do with some sort of communication or places of interaction, and that to change… — Thom Mayne Copy Share Image
I'm often called an old-fashioned modernist. But the modernists had the absurd idea that architecture could heal the world. That's impossible. And… — Thom Mayne Copy Share Image
Who I am as an architect and the history of my work - that's clear to anybody who hires me. But I… — Thom Mayne Copy Share Image
In architecture, you arrive so late. I look at doctors, lawyers I know, and they're all buying boats and bailing out at… — Thom Mayne Copy Share Image
The aesthetic of architecture has to be rooted in a broader idea about human activities like walking, relaxing and communicating. Architecture thinks… — Thom Mayne Copy Share Image
Architecture is the beginning of something because it's - if you're not involved in first principles, if you're not involved in the… — Thom Mayne Copy Share Image
But I absolutely believe that architecture is a social activity that has to do with some sort of communication or places of… — Thom Mayne Copy Share Image
I think a lot of people have the Frank Lloyd Wright model in their brains. The architect comes in with this act… — Thom Mayne Copy Share Image
I fought violently for the autonomy of architecture. It's a very passive, weak profession where people deliver a service. You want a… — Thom Mayne Copy Share Image
Architecture is involved with the world, but at the same time it has a certain autonomy. This autonomy cannot be explained in… — Thom Mayne Copy Share Image
I think all good architecture should challenge you, make you start asking questions. You don't have to understand it. You may not… — Thom Mayne Copy Share Image
I believe that artistic activities change people. You do effect change. I see architecture as a political, social and cultural act -… — Thom Mayne Copy Share Image
I have a preference for rough architecture, real, inexpensive, unfinished. — Thom Mayne Copy Share Image
Architecture is a discipline that takes time and patience. If one spends enough years writing complex novels one might be able, someday,… — Thom Mayne Copy Share Image
You might say that when you step inside, you're entering a honorific space, but that's something totally different than experiencing it. And… — Thom Mayne Copy Share Image
I don't know any architects that I respect who don't have their own voice. I think the difference between architecture and the… — Thom Mayne Copy Share Image
I've always been interested in an architecture of resistance - architecture that has some power over the way we live. Working under… — Thom Mayne Copy Share Image
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.… — Thom Mayne Copy Share Image
There is no modern prototype for a campus. You have to have a completely different model which has to do with transparency and exposing… — Thom Mayne Copy Share Image
Architecture is a negotiated art, and it's highly political, and if you want to make buildings, there is diplomacy required. — Thom Mayne Copy Share Image
We're producing spaces that accommodate human activity. And what I'm interested in is not the styling of that, but the relationship of that as… — Thom Mayne Copy Share Image
No matter what I've done, what I've tried to do, everybody says it can't be done. And it's continuous across the complete spectrum of… — Thom Mayne Copy Share Image
I'm not a tabula rasa type. In some ways, the more constraints I have, the work is more interesting to me. — Thom Mayne Copy Share Image
I lived in a state of rage from 12 to 20. Until college, I was beyond an outsider. I was a voyeur of life. — Thom Mayne Copy Share Image
I think a lot of people have the Frank Lloyd Wright model in their brains. The architect comes in with this act of creation… — Thom Mayne Copy Share Image
