Thom Mayne — American Architect born on January 19, 1942,

Thom Mayne is a Los Angeles-based architect. Mayne helped found the Southern California Institute of Architecture in 1972, where he is a trustee. Since then he has held teaching positions at SCI-Arc, the California State Polytechnic University, Pomona and the University of California, Los Angeles. He is principal of Morphosis, an architectural firm in Santa Monica, California. Mayne received the Pritzker Architecture Prize in March 2005... (wikipedia)

I think my clients would tell you I'm a problem solver. I'm not there to agree with people. I'm there to articulate a point of view. Am I insistent and tenacious? Absolutely. I could not get this work done if I was not.
I think all good architecture should challenge you, make you start asking questions. You don't have to understand it. You may not like it. That's OK.
We only exist in terms of how we think we exist. Meaning every cultural development is fabricated and can be fabricated.
The huge problem in our society is the enormous ignorance of the ideas that underlie modern art.
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.