Quote by Thom Mayne
My buildings dont speak in words but by means of their own spaciou

My buildings dont speak in words but by means of their own spaciousness. – Thom Mayne

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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. – Thom Mayne

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architecture
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Im often called an old-fashioned modernist. But the modernists had the absurd idea that architecture could heal the world. Thats impossible. And today nobody expects architects to have these grand visions any more. – Thom Mayne

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architecture
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The aesthetic of architecture has to be rooted in a broader idea about human activities like walking, relaxing and communicating. Architecture thinks about how these activities can be given added value. – Thom Mayne

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Japanese architecture is traditionally based on wooden structures that need renovating on a regular basis. – Tadao Ando

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I am but an architectural composer. – Alexander Jackson Davis

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If you give people nothingness, they can ponder what can be achieved from that nothingness. – Tadao Ando

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I love a lot of things, and Im pretty much obsessive about most things I do, whether it be gardening, or architecture, or music. Id be an obsessive hairdresser. – Gates McFadden

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