ADMISSION€ 15 / € 12 reduced / Free Admission for children and teens under 19 / MoreCalifornian architect and 2005 Pritzker Prize winner Thom Mayne founded the interdisciplinary and experimental studio collective MORPHOSIS back in 1972 with the goal of developing architecture that would overcome all limitations of traditional formal language. Initially a loose working arrangement with his colleague Michael Rotondi, MORPHOSIS now employs over 40 architects and designers and has developed into of the best-known US-based architecture studios; it takes on commissions from all over the world.Mayne’s architecture is characterized by complex geometric forms. Above all on his buildings’ facades, he works with intelligent layerings which define protected interior spaces and simultaneously become effective as public space. In Austria, for example, he created the eye-catching glass-and-steel façade of the Hypo Alpe-Adria Bank in Klagenfurt.Mayne is a founding member of the Californian University SCI-Arc (Southern California Institute of Architecture, est. 1972) and teaches at various renowned universities in various countries; his current permanent post is as a professor at the UCLA School of Arts and Architecture in Los Angeles. He received a Cooper-Hewitt National Design Award in 2006.
Californian architect and 2005 Pritzker Prize winner Thom Mayne founded the interdisciplinary and experimental studio collective MORPHOSIS back in 1972 with the goal of developing architecture that would overcome all limitations of traditional formal language. Initially a loose working arrangement with his colleague Michael Rotondi, MORPHOSIS now employs over 40 architects and designers and has developed into of the best-known US-based architecture studios; it takes on commissions from all over the world.
Mayne’s architecture is characterized by complex geometric forms. Above all on his buildings’ facades, he works with intelligent layerings which define protected interior spaces and simultaneously become effective as public space. In Austria, for example, he created the eye-catching glass-and-steel façade of the Hypo Alpe-Adria Bank in Klagenfurt.
Mayne is a founding member of the Californian University SCI-Arc (Southern California Institute of Architecture, est. 1972) and teaches at various renowned universities in various countries; his current permanent post is as a professor at the UCLA School of Arts and Architecture in Los Angeles. He received a Cooper-Hewitt National Design Award in 2006.
Mayne’s architecture is characterized by complex geometric forms. Above all on his buildings’ facades, he works with intelligent layerings which define protected interior spaces and simultaneously become effective as public space. In Austria, for example, he created the eye-catching glass-and-steel façade of the Hypo Alpe-Adria Bank in Klagenfurt.
Mayne is a founding member of the Californian University SCI-Arc (Southern California Institute of Architecture, est. 1972) and teaches at various renowned universities in various countries; his current permanent post is as a professor at the UCLA School of Arts and Architecture in Los Angeles. He received a Cooper-Hewitt National Design Award in 2006.