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Thom Mayne

"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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"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."
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"The multiplicity of ideas is what I'm interested in."
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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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"Descriptions of my work depress me. They make me feel pinned down."
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"My buildings don't speak in words but by means of their own spaciousness."
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"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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"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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