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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."

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Donna Grant

"Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself."

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Donna Grant

"I was planning to go into architecture. But when I arrived, architecture was filled up. Acting was right next to it, so I signed up for acting instead."

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Donna Grant

"We are stymied by regulations, limited choice and the threat of litigation. Neither consultants nor industry itself provide research which takes architecture forward."

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Donna Grant

"In architecture the pride of man his triumph over gravitation his will to power assume a visible form. Architecture is a sort of oratory of power by means of forms."

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Donna Grant

"The White House was designed by Hoban a noted Irish-American architect and I have no doubt that he believed by incorporating several features of the Dublin style he would make it more homelike for any President of Irish descent. It was a long wait but I appreciate his efforts."

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Donna Grant

"Architecture doesn't come from theory. You don't think your way through a building."

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Donna Grant

"We shape our buildings thereafter they shape us."

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Donna Grant

"Rather than wait to see what the day or future holds, why not design and plan the future you want to experience?"

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Donna Grant

"Modern architecture predominately specializes in designing what are essentially dimly lit caves."

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Donna Grant

"Charles was very intent to use his years as Prince of Wales to make his mark while he still had freedom of maneuver that he wouldn't have as King. The first subject he really went for was architecture. It made an impact."

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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."

Architecture

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

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

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

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

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

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Thom Mayne
"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."

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Thom Mayne
"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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