68 Quotes by Thom Mayne

The aesthetic of architecture has to be rooted in a broader idea about human activities like walking, relaxing and communicating. Architecture thinks about how these activities can be given added value.

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.

Large-scale public projects require the agreement of large numbers of people.

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

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

Do I provoke as a method of investigation? Of course. That's the essence of architecture. Do I do it with gusto? I do.

For me the meaning of my work is much more fluid.

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

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.