"Our idea of nature is increasingly being determined……" — Thom Mayne
"Our idea of nature is increasingly being determined by scientific developments. And they have become decisive for our image of reality."
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32 Quotes by 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.
- Architecture is a social activity that has to do with some sort of communication or places of interaction, and that…
- My buildings don't speak in words but by means of their own spaciousness.
- The multiplicity of ideas is what Im interested in.
- You might say that when you step inside, you're entering a honorific space, but that's something totally different than experiencing…
- Large-scale public projects require the agreement of large numbers of people.
- Architecture is a discipline that takes time and patience. If one spends enough years writing complex novels one might be…
- Descriptions of my work depress me. They make me feel pinned down.
- You can't make anything authentic by asking people what they want because they don't know what they want. That's what…
- Architecture is involved with the world, but at the same time it has a certain autonomy. This autonomy cannot be…
- We only exist in terms of how we think we exist. Meaning every cultural development is fabricated and can be…
- So at a time in which the media give the public everything it wants and desires, maybe art should adopt…
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