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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. ↗

— Thom Mayne

#architecture #art #autonomy #because #cannot

I'm often called an old-fashioned modernist. But the modernists had the absurd idea that architecture could heal the world. That's impossible. And today nobody expects architects to have these grand visions any more. ↗

— Thom Mayne

#any #architects #architecture #called #could

I've learned that in order to achieve what I wanted, it made more sense to negotiate than to defend the autonomy of my work by pounding my fist on the table. ↗

— Thom Mayne

#autonomy #defend #fist #i #learned

Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today's job with yesterday's tools and yesterday's concepts. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

#anxiety #concepts #great #job #our

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. ↗

— Thom Mayne

#art #autonomy #away #connections #notion

So at a time in which the media give the public everything it wants and desires, maybe art should adopt a much more aggressive attitude towards the public. I myself am very much inclined to take this position. ↗

— Thom Mayne

#aggressive #am #art #attitude #desires

So I am totally aware that when I defend the autonomy of art I'm going counter to my own development. It's more an instinctive reaction, meant to protect the private aspect of the work, the part I am most interested in and which nowadays is at risk in our culture. ↗

— Thom Mayne

#art #aspect #autonomy #aware #counter

So we can't go backwards, we can only go where the evolutionary trajectory is taking us and attune our ideas about ourselves and our existence to that course. ↗

— Thom Mayne

#backwards #course #evolutionary #existence #go

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. ↗

— Thom Mayne

#comes #deepest #different #effect #entering

I told my whole life story in my book. ↗

— Heather Mills

#i #life #life story #story #told