My buildings don't speak in words but by means of their own spaciousne… — Quoted

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“My buildings don't speak in words but by means of their own spaciousness.”

Thom Mayne · Architecture

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Thom Mayne

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.

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Thom Mayne

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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Thom Mayne

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

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Architecture is involved with the world, but at the same time it has a certain autonomy. This autonomy cannot be explained in terms of traditional logic because the most interesting parts of the work are non-verbal. They operate within the terms of the work, like any art.

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