Quotes by : Thom Mayne

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

In architecture, you arrive so late. I look at doctors, lawyers I know, and they're all buying boats....

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

I've always been interested in an architecture of resistance - architecture that has some power over....

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 involved with the world, but at the same time it has a certain autonomy. This autonomy....

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....