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Morphosis Architects is an interdisciplinary architectural and design practice in Los Angeles.
The firm was informally founded in 1972 by Michael Brickler, Thom Mayne, Livio Santini and James Stafford. Michael Rotondi joined the practice in 1975 and remained a principal until 1991. Writing in 1989, Boston Globe architecture critic Robert Campbell called Morphosis "one of the country's most interesting" architecture firms, and described its very physical, materials-focused design style as "look[ing] as if it might hurt you."
Born in Connecticut, Thom Mayne (b. 1944) studied architecture at the University of Southern California and Harvard Graduate School of Design. He was a founding member of the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc) in 1972, and has held faculty positions at the Southern California Institute of Architecture, California Polytechnic State University, Pomona, and the University of California, Los Angeles. Mayne was the recipient of the Pritzker Prize in Architecture in 2005.
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This lecture was recorded on September 28, 2015, in Timken Lecture Hall on the San Francisco campus of California College of the Arts as part of the Architecture Division Lecture Series. Thom Mayne founded Morphosis as a collective architectural practice engaged in cross-disciplinary research and design. As design director and thought leader, Mayne provides overall vision and project leadership to the firm. With permanent offices in Los Angeles and New York, the firm currently employs over 50 architects and designers. Mayne’s distinguished honors include the Pritzker Prize (2005) and the AIA Gold Medal (2013). He was appointed to the President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities in 2009, and was honored with the American Institute of Architects Los Angeles Gold Medal in 2000. With ...
http://www.architecturalrecord.com/ Thom Mayne of Morphosis Architects shows us his firm's new academic building for the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in New York.
Monday, October 26, 2016 Decafe, Perloff Hall Richard Weinstein Lecture Thom Mayne Distinguished Professor, UCLA Architecture and Urban Design; Director, Now Institute; Design Director, Morphosis, Los Angeles and New York Introduction by Richard Weinstein and conversation with Kevin Daly Lecture title: ?'s (4x10+) Mr. Mayne will discuss Morphosis’ evolution and development over 40+ years of practice. Thom Mayne founded Morphosis as a collective architectural practice engaged in cross-disciplinary research and design. As Design Director and thought leader of Morphosis, Mayne provides overall vision and project leadership to the firm. With permanent offices in Los Angeles and New York City, the firm currently employs over 50 architects and designers. Mayne’s distinguished honors inc...
In 2009 a spaceship landed in the middle of old New York. At 41 Cooper Square, Thom Mayne's iconic building shines like a diamond in the rough, transparent, light, and extremely cool. As an architect, Thom Mayne ( b.1944) is fascinated with imperfection, he says: "I have a preference for rough architecture, real, inexpensive, unfinished." Initially the local community was sceptical of the new project in the middle of their neighbourhood, objecting by posting notes such as: "Please take this spaceship to another site." But after a while most people seem to have embraced the newcomer, accepted it as one of their own. Architecture is not meant to be a popularity contest though, as Mayne puts it: "We've failed if the response is that it's OK, if it seems neutral. Everybody can't like it." Th...
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Morphosis Architects founder, Thom Mayne, shares his art with FORM publisher/architect Ann Gray. Read their interview on inspiration in FORM magazine's Jan/Feb 2011 issue. Experience the full video interview at http://www.FORMmag.net
http://7132.com - 7132 Hotel and Spa (named after it's zip code) is an unlikely destination for food, luxury and architecture set in the picturesque village of Vals, Switzerland. The hotel is home to the Michelin Stared restaurant Silver, but it also has the distinction of featuring work from 3 Pritzker-winning architects, Tadoa Ando, Peter Zumthor, Thom Mayne plus Kengo Kuma. Continuing to build on this tradition of world class architecture, 7132 recently announced that they plan to build the tallest building in Europe as well as the tallest Hotel in the World. The Tower, designed by Morphosis Architects will rise 318 meters over the quiet village of Vals. In this interview, 7132's owner Remo Stoffel, speaks to Jeremy Mason McGraw about the hotel as it is now and it's ambitious plans fo...
http://www.ted.com Architect Thom Mayne has never been one to take the easy option, and this whistle-stop tour of the buildings he's created makes you glad for it. These are big ideas cast in material form. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers are invited to give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes -- including speakers such as Jill Bolte Taylor, Sir Ken Robinson, Hans Rosling, Al Gore and Arthur Benjamin. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, and Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, politics and the arts. Watch the Top 10 TEDTalks on TED.com, at http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/top10
Thom Mayne, principal of Morphosis, addresses the design community in Knoxville as the General Shale keynote lecturer during the 50th Anniversary of the UT College of Architecture and Design.