Meet Pritzker Prize Winner Thom Mayne

May 15, 2008 Nasher Hall

7 pm Doors Open

8 pm Thom Mayne Salon Moderated by Architectural Critic David Dillon

9 pm Reception Honoring Thom Mayne

 

Thom Mayne

Winner of the 2005 Pritzker Architecture Prize, the profession’s highest honor, Thom Mayne is a Los Angeles based architect whose work has been distinguished with over 100 design awards over the past three decades.  Mayne was recently selected to design the new Museum of Nature and Science facility at Dallas’ Victory Park.
Mayne founded his award-winning architectural firm, Morphosis, in 1972 as an interdisciplinary and collective practice involved in experimental design and research.  With projects worldwide and offices in Los Angeles, New York, Paris and Shanghai, Mayne’s work encompasses a wide range of project types and scales including residential, institutional, and civic buildings as well as large urban planning projects such as the firm’s winning proposal for the NYC 2012 Olympic Village.
 
Morphosis has received 25 Progressive Architecture Awards and 70 American Institute of Architects Awards and numerous other design recognitions including the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Award for Architecture (2006), Rome Prize Fellowship (1987), Alumni of the Year Award from USC (1992), Member Elect from the American Academy of Arts and Letters (1992), American Institute of Architects/Los Angeles Gold Medal in Architecture (2000), and the Chrysler Design Award of Excellence (2001). Under Mayne’s direction, Morphosis has been the subject of extensive publications and exhibitions throughout the world.
 
Mayne’s most prominent projects include the Diamond Ranch High School in Pomona, Calif.; the University of Cincinnati Campus Recreation Center in Cincinnati, Ohio; the San Francisco Federal Building; the Wayne L. Morse U.S. Courthouse in Eugene, Oregon; the Hypo Alpe-Adria Bank in Klagenfurt, Austria; and Caltrans District 7 Headquarters in Los Angeles.  In addition to designing the new Museum of Nature and Science in Dallas, he is currently working on the Tour Phare in Paris, the tallest building in France since the Eiffel Tower; the Cahill Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics at Caltech in Pasadena, Ca; a New Academic Building for the Cooper Union in New York City and a social housing project in Spain.