Thom Mayne Quotes

I loved logic, math, computer programming. I loved systems and logic approaches. And so I just figured architecture is this perfect combination.

I wanted to be an architect. I used to draw houses and buildings and construct buildings on my own.

If, early on, you know how things are put together, then you can build. The architect is in charge of making - he is not an artist.

A lot of our creative flow comes from a place of curiosity and exploration. It often feels like we're excavating and asking questions and not just giving answers but really just exploring.

Just taking a piece of dirt and envisioning the building you'd like to put on it - it's an amazing process.

Architecture is by definition a very collaborative process.

I like building.

Engineering, medicine, business, architecture and painting are concerned not with the necessary but with the contingent - not with how things are but with how they might be - in short, with design.

Every time you do something, make something, it's final in a way, but it's not. It immediately raises a great set of questions. And if you become a question addict, which I am, you immediately have something you need to pursue.

Architecture begins when you place two bricks carefully together.

Much can often be learned by the repetition under different conditions, even if the desired result is not obtained.

What I try to do is the art of building, and the art of building is the art of construction; it is not only about forms and shapes and images.

I like the creative aspect of developing a project.

Try out your ideas by visualizing them in action.

Architecture is a service business. An architect is given a program, budget, place, and schedule. Sometimes the end product rises to art - or at least people call it that.

People kind of tend to mystify design and architecture by suggesting you need to train.

Building is just skilled labor, I suppose. It's a lot of work. I don't mind other people building them, but the way things go together and are made is interesting to me; I like that a lot.

Ever since I was young I loved making things and being part of the design process.

A designer is someone who constructs while he thinks, someone for whom planning and making go together.

I don't have the answers. But I am asking the questions, and that's the fun part. I'm like the kid in class with his hand up, going, 'Um...' I think that's a powerful place to create from.

I enjoy construction and the process of building things, so maybe I'd be a developer of some kind - residential and commercial. Because I produce a lot of television now, I enjoy building things from the ground up, whether it's a physical structure or a show, and seeing them and realizing them.

I was always really geeky about design and buildings. Always into architecture as a kid.

I am involved in the architecture of space.

Ultimately, the artistic part of architecture has always interested me.

Construction will always be needed. You will always need to renovate projects.