American - Architect | January 19, 1942 -
Architecture is the story of how we see ourselves. It is the architect's job to service everyday life.
Thom Mayne
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Architecture is a result of a process of asking questions and testing them and re-interrogating and changing in a repetitive way.
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New York is this cacophony - a collection of radical differences, an agreement of non sequiturs. The diversity and intensity are startling.
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I believe that artistic activities change people. You do effect change. I see architecture as a political, social and cultural act - that is its primary role.
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The huge problem in our society is the enormous ignorance of the ideas that underlie modern art.
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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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Architecture is involved with the world, but at the same time it has a certain autonomy. This autonomy cannot be explained in terms of traditional logic because the most interesting parts of the work are non-verbal. They operate within the terms of the work, like any art.
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In Paris, there has to be a presence. History becomes the most interesting when it's compared to the present. I mean there's a whole group of people that want to build new buildings that look like old buildings.
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Look around at day-to-day life for ideas, and it finds its way into your work.
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Architecture is the beginning of something because it's - if you're not involved in first principles, if you're not involved in the absolute, the beginning of that generative process, it's cake decoration.
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Scientific reality is the modern human condition, and you can see that in the symbolic nature of my work.
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So we can't go backwards, we can only go where the evolutionary trajectory is taking us and attune our ideas about ourselves and our existence to that course.
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