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" I believe that artistic activities change people. You do effect change. I see architecture as a political, social and cultural act - that is its primary role. "

Thom Mayne

Change

Political

People

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" Not yesterday, not tomorrow, only today can be given form. Only this architecture creates. "

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" In 1996, I took advantage of some favourable circumstances to propose to the state of the Ticino Canton the foundation of the Academy of Architecture and, with it, an Italian-speaking university in Switzerland. "

" To go back to architecture, what's organic about architecture as a field, unlike product design, is this whole issue of holism and of monumentality is really our realm. Like, we have to design things which are coherent as a single object, but also break down into small rooms and have an identity of both the big scale and the small scale. "

" I love the architecture magazines and all of the French magazines for decoration or whatever. I end up enjoying them more sometimes than the fashion magazines. "

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Architecture

End

" I didn't know what architecture was except that I lived in a house. I don't even think that I knew the word for a long time. My dad funneled me into engineering because it was his background. "

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Architecture

Think

" I attended classes and taught classes, in Food Anthropology at Pace University, with an anthropology professor. You can trace history by the architecture and food of a place. Food is one of those things that transcends and stays in the culture. "

" There is a powerful need for symbolism, and that means the architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart. There is a powerful need for symbolism, and that means the architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart. "

" I mean, certainly writing, painting, photography, dance, architecture, there is an aspect of almost every art form that is useful and that merges into film in some way. "

" Ever since childhood, I've been interested in history and myth. Not just the facts and figures of the past, but everything that contributes to shape our perception of an age: architecture, art, literature and so forth. "

" The problem of architecture has always been the same throughout time. Its authentic quality is reached through its proportions, and the proportions cost nothing. In fact, most of them are proportions among things, not the things themselves. Art is almost always a question of proportions. "

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Architecture

Art

Quality

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

" When we project the specific organization of the human body into the space outside it, then we have architecture. "

" Architecture is art, nothing else. "

" In L.A., cinema and television might be seen as more interesting places for architecture than ever before. "

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Cinema

Interesting

" I love Chicago. It's one of the great cities. I'm crazy about the town. It reminds me of New York when it was at its best, the New York that used to be and is no more. I love the architecture, the old stuff and the new stuff. "

" At this present time, matter is still the best way to think of architecture, but I'm not so sure for very long. The computer is radicalizing the way we think about our world. "

" In Zagreb, the Old Town really could be Prague. You go two hours to the coast to Opatija, and you really could be in the South of France, in the Croatian Riviera. And then you head down the coast towards Split, and you get into more Turkish architecture, so you can double Istanbul. "

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

Thom Mayne

Much

Meaning

" I think architecture, to be really intense and fulfilling, doesn't have to be large. "

" Architecture struck me between the eye and the eyeball. "

" Architecture is basically a container of something. I hope they will enjoy not so much the teacup, but the tea. "

" I have an architecture degree; that's what my college degree is in. And that sucked. I started doing Web and CD-ROM development really early on, and then that grew into being an art director and doing advertising work. "

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

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Down

Make

" Let us together create the new building of the future, which will be everything in one form: architecture and sculpture and painting. "

" When Washington visited Portsmouth in 1789, he was not much impressed by the architecture of the little town that had stood by him so stoutly in the struggle for independence. "

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Independence

Struggle

" A house is a machine for living in. "