Thom mayne morphosis biography
Thom mayne morphosis architect!
Everything about Thom Mayne—his architecture, his favorite music, his heroes, his way of thinking—reveals his roots in the s.
Thom mayne morphosis biography
Having come of age amid that transformative decade of political, cultural, and social experimentation, the LA-based co-founder of Morphosis Architects has built a life, both professional and personal, in pursuit of freedom, reform, and revolution; utterly untethered to convention, precedent, and nostalgia.
“His work,” wrote legendary architecture critic Ada Louise Huxtable, who served on the jury that awarded Mayne the Pritzker Architecture Prize in , “moves architecture from the 20th to the 21st century.” As my guest on last week’s Architecture: The Legends program, he shared his eternal fascination with radical innovation and the way that technology has shaped architecture and the world.
To Mayne, the practice of architecture in the 21st century is not simply about completing ambitious projects in the post millennial years.
Rather it is bo