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

- Thom Mayne

You can't make anything authentic by asking people what they want because they don't know what they want. That's what they're looking at you for.

- Thom Mayne

I'm interested in conflict and confrontation.

- Thom Mayne

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 c…

- Thom Mayne

Look around at day-to-day life for ideas, and it finds its way into your work.

- Thom Mayne

The aesthetic of architecture has to be rooted in a broader idea about human activities like walking, relaxing and communicating. Architecture thinks…

- Thom Mayne

The multiplicity of ideas is what Im interested in.

- Thom Mayne

Architecture is a discipline that takes time and patience. If one spends enough years writing complex novels one might be able, someday, to construct…

- Thom Mayne

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

- Thom Mayne