Quotes by : Thom Mayne

Architecture is the story of how we see ourselves. It is the architect's job to service everyday life.....

Architecture is the beginning of something because it's - if you're not involved in first principles,....

So at a time in which the media give the public everything it wants and desires, maybe art should adopt....

Somehow, architecture alters the way we think about the world and the way we behave. Any serious architecture,....

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

I have a preference for rough architecture, real, inexpensive, unfinished.

You might say that when you step inside, you're entering a honorific space, but that's something totally....

Architecture is a result of a process of asking questions and testing them and re-interrogating and changing....

The aesthetic of architecture has to be rooted in a broader idea about human activities like walking,....

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