Thom Mayne's Profile
Brief about Thom Mayne: By info that we know Thom Mayne was born at 1942-01-19. And also Thom Mayne is American Architect.
Some Thom Mayne's quotes. Goto "Thom Mayne's quotation" section for more.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.
Tags: Learned, Sense, WorkBut 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.
Tags: Architecture, Change, SocialThe huge problem in our society is the enormous ignorance of the ideas that underlie modern art.
Tags: Art, Ignorance, SocietyLarge-scale public projects require the agreement of large numbers of people.
Tags: Large, Numbers, PublicOur idea of nature is increasingly being determined by scientific developments. And they have become decisive for our image of reality.
Tags: Become, Nature, RealityScientific reality is the modern human condition, and you can see that in the symbolic nature of my work.
Tags: Human, Nature, WorkThe multiplicity of ideas is what I'm interested in.
Tags: Ideas, InterestedWe only exist in terms of how we think we exist. Meaning every cultural development is fabricated and can be fabricated.
Tags: Cultural, Exist, MeaningArchitecture 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.
Tags: Art, Time, WorkI'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.
Tags: Architecture, Impossible, TodayIt'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.
Tags: Art, Away, PoliticalSo 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.
Tags: Art, Attitude, TimeSo 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.
Tags: Art, Culture, WorkSo 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.
Tags: Ideas, Ourselves, TakingThe 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.
Tags: Human, Idea, ValueYou 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.
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