Quotes by : Thom Mayne

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 fought violently for the autonomy of architecture. It's a very passive, weak profession where people....

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

I think all good architecture should challenge you, make you start asking questions. You don't have to....

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

I don't know any architects that I respect who don't have their own voice. I think the difference between....

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