American - Architect | January 19, 1942 -
You might say that when you step inside, you're entering a honorific space, but that's something totally different than experiencing it. And in architecture the experience comes first. That has the deepest effect on us.
Thom Mayne
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I've been such an outsider my whole life.
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The multiplicity of ideas is what I'm interested in.
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Who I am as an architect and the history of my work - that's clear to anybody who hires me. But I come in literally with nothing in my brain about what the building will look like.
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I think a lot of people have the Frank Lloyd Wright model in their brains. The architect comes in with this act of creation and lays it down, and that's it. But that's not me.
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Do I provoke as a method of investigation? Of course. That's the essence of architecture. Do I do it with gusto? I do.
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I enjoy working with people. I understand that as a necessity. And clearly that's something that develops as you get older. And I've grown into that.
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In architecture, you arrive so late. I look at doctors, lawyers I know, and they're all buying boats and bailing out at 62. My career is just getting started.
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I fought violently for the autonomy of architecture. It's a very passive, weak profession where people deliver a service. You want a blue door, you get a blue door. You want it to look neo-Spanish, you get neo-Spanish. Architecture with any authenticity represents resistance. Resistance is a good thing.
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There is no modern prototype for a campus. You have to have a completely different model which has to do with transparency and exposing social connectivity and breaking down the Balkanization that happens departmentally.
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I don't know any architects that I respect who don't have their own voice. I think the difference between architecture and the other arts is your immersion in reality.
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I'm a private person by nature. I live in my brain half the time, not the world, and I'm not a natural negotiator. But I've learned to negotiate.
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