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Mayne's New Academic Building for Cooper Union (2009)

Thom Mayne (b. January 19, 1944, in Waterbury, Connecticut) is a Los Angeles-based architect. Educated at University of Southern California (1969)[1] and the Harvard University Graduate School of Design (1978), Mayne helped found the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc) in 1972 and now serves on the school's Board of Trustees. Since then he has held teaching positions at SCI-Arc, the California State Polytechnic University, Pomona (Cal Poly Pomona)[2] and the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). He is principal of Morphosis (/mɔːrˈfoʊsɪs/), an architectural firm in Santa Monica, California. Mayne received the Pritzker Prize in March 2005.[3]

Diamond Ranch High School in Pomona, California (1999)
University of Toronto Graduate House (2000)
Caltrans District 7 Headquarters, Los Angeles (2004)
University of Cincinnati Rec Center (2006)
Morse Courthouse in Eugene, Oregon (2006)
San Francisco Federal Building (2006)
NOAA National Satellite Operations Center (2007)
Part of the street-level base of the New Academic Building (2009)

Firm

Thom Mayne, with Livio Santini, James Stafford and Michael Brickler, founded Morphosis in 1971. Michael Rotondi joined the firm in 1975 to develop an architecture that would eschew the normal bounds of traditional forms.

Morphosis’s design philosophy arises from an interest in producing work with a meaning that can be understood by absorbing the culture for which it was made.

Beginning as an informal collaboration of designers that survived on non-architectural projects, its first official commission was a school in Pasadena, attended by Mayne's son. Publicity from this project led to a number of residential commissions, including the Lawrence Residence.

Since then, Morphosis has grown into prominent design practice, with completed projects worldwide. Under the Design Excellence program of the United States government's General Service Administration, Thom Mayne has become a primary architect for federal projects. Recent commissions include: graduate housing at the University of Toronto; the San Francisco Federal Building; the University of Cincinnati Student Recreation Center; the Science Center School in Los Angeles, Diamond Ranch High School in Pomona, California; and the Wayne L. Morse United States Courthouse in Eugene, Oregon.

The work of Morphosis has a layered quality. Visually, the firm’s architecture includes sculptural forms. In recent years, such visual effect has been made possible increasingly through computer design techniques, which simplify the construction of complex forms.

Awards and honors

Major projects

Completed

In progress

References

Notes
  1. ^ www.usc.edu
  2. ^ "Mayne to get Pritzker". The San Diego Union-Tribune. Retrieved 2008-09-11.
  3. ^ "[[Edward Lifson]], "American Wins Architecture's Highest Award", March 21, 2005". NPR.org. {{cite web}}: URL–wikilink conflict (help)
  4. ^ http://www.morphopedia.com/projects/madrid-housing
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