“When I found out I was in the top 13 I was freaking out and crying it was such a joyous moment for me.” MomentsFoundCryJoyousFreaking Out Author:Thia Megia
“Describing the person I am would best be through music. When I'm up on stage and I'm singing my heart out, I am always reminded of life's best things.” HeartPersonsStageMy HeartSingingBest ThingsDescribing Author:Thia Megia
“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.” WorldIdeasTodayVisionImpossibleArchitectureHealAbsurdArchitectOld FashionedHeal The World Author:Thom Mayne
“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.” WorldArtReasonPoliticalSocialConnectionsNotionAutonomy Author:Thom Mayne
“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.” ArtCultureMy OwnRiskDevelopmentProtectAspectReactionsAutonomy Author:Thom Mayne
“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.” IdeasCoursesExistenceBackwardsTrajectory Author: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.” ThinkingHumansIdeasValuesGivenWalkingActivityCommunicateArchitectureAestheticRootedHuman ActivityAdded Value Author:Thom Mayne