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Thom Mayne
 
Name:   Thom Mayne
 
Nationality:   American
 
Date of Birth:   Jan 19, 1942
 
Profession:   Architect
 
 
 
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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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For me the meaning of my work is much more fluid.
 
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Descriptions of my work depress me. They make me feel pinned down.
 
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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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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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