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

~Thom Mayne

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

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

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You 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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I've been such an outsider my whole life.

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The multiplicity of ideas is what I'm interested in.

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Who I am as an architect and the history of my work - that's clear to anybody who hires me. But I come in literally with nothing in my brain about what the building will look like.

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I think a lot of people have the Frank Lloyd Wright model in their brains. The architect comes in with this act of creation and lays it down, and that's it. But that's not me.

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

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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.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Architect

Born: January 19th, 1942

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