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. Thom Mayne More Quotes by Thom Mayne More Quotes From Thom Mayne Scientific reality is the modern human condition, and you can see that in the symbolic nature of my work. Thom Mayne human-condition modern reality Art in progress. MAK has occupied a unique and valuable space as international host for discourse between the arts and architecture. Thom Mayne space unique art It's too simplistic to advance the notion of the autonomy of art as a reason for turning away from the public. You can have autonomy and simultaneously have connections with the social and political world. Thom Mayne connections political art I've learned that in order to achieve what I wanted, it made more sense to negotiate than to defend the autonomy of my work by pounding my fist on the table. Thom Mayne fists order hands 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. Thom Mayne top-news 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. Thom Mayne challenge good you architecture I have a preference for rough architecture, real, inexpensive, unfinished. Thom Mayne unfinished rough architecture real Architecture is a result of a process of asking questions and testing them and re-interrogating and changing in a repetitive way. Thom Mayne result architecture process way But I absolutely believe that 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. Thom Mayne architecture communication change 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. Thom Mayne nature brain time world Find a place that you are comfortable with. Don't be afraid to make mistakes. Make a lot of mistakes. Thom Mayne mistakes find place you
