“We're producing spaces that accommodate human activity. And what I'm i...” — Thom Mayne Quote

We're producing spaces that accommodate human activity. And what I'm interested in is not the styling of that, but the relationship of that as it enhances that activity. And that directly connects to ideas of city-making.

I'm not a tabula rasa type. In some ways, the more constraints I have, the work is more interesting to me.

Our idea of nature is increasingly being determined by scientific developments. And they have become decisive for our image of reality.

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.

I really think there are spirits in a place that you have to accommodate.

Mission accomplished. The Museum of Modern Art's wide-open, tall-ceilinged, super-reinforced second floor was for all intents and purposes built to accommodate monumental installations and gigantic sculptures, should the need arise. It has arisen.

In 2011, I announced that I was going to retire, and my agent panicked. So she says: 'No, no, no. You have to write a book with your husband.' My husband is a writer of crime novels. His name is William Gordon. And so I had to accommodate to his style because that's what he writes. So we decided we'd give it a try. Well, we almost divorced.

I would be a fool to put my feet down in a position where I can't accommodate metamorphoses.