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Thom Mayne Quotes

American - Architect | January 19, 1942 -

I'm not just influenced by the '60s - it's who I am. I grew up with Allen Ginsberg and Che Guevara. I flirted with various forms of communism when it was way out of style. It was this really strange and creative time in music and culture, and it was fabulous.

Music Time Style Culture Creative

Find a place that you are comfortable with. Don't be afraid to make mistakes. Make a lot of mistakes.

Mistakes You Find Place Comfortable

I think all good architecture should challenge you, make you start asking questions. You don't have to understand it. You may not like it. That's OK.

Good Challenge Architecture Start

I'm interested in conflict and confrontation.

Conflict Confrontation Interested

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

Architecture Real Rough Preference

I think my clients would tell you I'm a problem solver. I'm not there to agree with people. I'm there to articulate a point of view. Am I insistent and tenacious? Absolutely. I could not get this work done if I was not.

Work People Think View Problem You

I've grown up a little bit. I understand the importance of the negotiation. It is a collective act.

Negotiation Understand Up Little Act

I'm not a tabula rasa type. In some ways, the more constraints I have, the work is more interesting to me.

Work Me Interesting More Constraints

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

Art Architecture Political You Want

I've always been interested in an architecture of resistance - architecture that has some power over the way we live. Working under adversarial conditions could be seen as a plus because you're offering alternatives. Still, there are situations that make you ask the questions: 'Do I want to be a part of this?'

Live Power Architecture Questions

No matter what I've done, what I've tried to do, everybody says it can't be done. And it's continuous across the complete spectrum of the various kind of realities that you confront with your ideas.

Ideas You Done Kind Matter Complete

We're producing spaces that accommodate human activity. And what I'm interested in is not the styling of that, but the relationship of that as it enhances that activity. And that directly connects to ideas of city-making.

Relationship Ideas Human Activity

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