For the 7132 hotel and arrival, the incredible setting demands reducing materiality and presence in the design so that, as in all our work, the connection to site becomes paramount, as much as possible, the hotel is a minimalist act that reiterates the site and offers to the viewer a mirrored, refracted perspective of the landscape.

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Architecture is a discipline that takes time and patience. If one spends enough years writing complex novels one might be able, someday, to construct a respectable haiku.

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My buildings don't speak in words but by means of their own spaci... by Thom Mayne

My buildings don't speak in words but by means of their own spaciousness.

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The huge problem in our society is the enormous ignorance of the... by Thom Mayne

The huge problem in our society is the enormous ignorance of the ideas that underlie modern art.

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Architecture is a social activity that has to do with some sort of communication or places of interaction, and that to change the environment is to change behaviour.

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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.

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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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You can't make anything authentic by asking people what they want because they don't know what they want. That's what they're looking at you for.

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The multiplicity of ideas is what Im interested in. by Thom Mayne

The multiplicity of ideas is what Im interested in.

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I'm interested in conflict and confrontation. by Thom Mayne

I'm interested in conflict and confrontation.

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Look around at day-to-day life for ideas, and it finds its way in... by Thom Mayne

Look around at day-to-day life for ideas, and it finds its way into your work.

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We only exist in terms of how we think we exist. Meaning every cultural development is fabricated and can be fabricated.

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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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I'm often called an old-fashioned modernist. But the modernists had the absurd idea that architecture could heal the world. That's impossible. And today nobody expects architects to have these grand visions any more.

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I've been such an outsider my whole life. by Thom Mayne

I've been such an outsider my whole life.

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Large-scale public projects require the agreement of large number... by Thom Mayne

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

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Descriptions of my work depress me. They make me feel pinned down... by Thom Mayne

Descriptions of my work depress me. They make me feel pinned down.

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So I am totally aware that when I defend the autonomy of art I'm going counter to my own development. It's more an instinctive reaction, meant to protect the private aspect of the work, the part I am most interested in and which nowadays is at risk in our culture.

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

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

So at a time in which the media give the public everything it wants and desires, maybe art should adopt a much more aggressive attitude towards the public. I myself am very much inclined to take this position.

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