Thom Mayne

In 1972 Thom Mayne founded the firm Morphosis (‘to be in formation’) to develop an architecture that would eschew bounds of traditional forms and materials; that would counter the limiting dualism of modern and postmodern. Concretizing the ephemerality of feeling, he creates fusions that, as with the Diamond Ranch High School in Pomona,California (1998), blur the demarcation between the ground and the building. art…