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“The age of recalcitrance is over. The best solution is no longer just to regurgitate a 19th-century design.” quote by Thom Mayne — Download Open image

“The age of recalcitrance is over. The best solution is no longer just to regurgitate a 19th-century design.”

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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.…

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The multiplicity of ideas is what I'm interested in.

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I've been such an outsider my whole life.

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

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The multiplicity of ideas is what Im interested in.

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There is no modern prototype for a campus. You have to have a completely different model which has to do with transparency and exposing…

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Architecture is a negotiated art, and it's highly political, and if you want to make buildings, there is diplomacy required.

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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…

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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…

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I'm not a tabula rasa type. In some ways, the more constraints I have, the work is more interesting to me.

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I lived in a state of rage from 12 to 20. Until college, I was beyond an outsider. I was a voyeur of life.

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I think a lot of people have the Frank Lloyd Wright model in their brains. The architect comes in with this act of creation…

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