Quotes by : Thom Mayne

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

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

But I absolutely believe that architecture is a social activity that has to do with some sort of communication....

I believe that artistic activities change people. You do effect change. I see architecture as a political,....

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

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....

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

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