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Karen Stein, Pritzker Juror and Editorial Director of the Phaidon Press, a publisher of books on the visual arts, describes Mayne as “the biggest risk-taker in architecture.”
Mayne, who holds an undergraduate degree from the University of Southern California (USC) and a masters degree from the GSD, has been teaching since he was 26. After graduating from USC, he taught briefly at Pomona College, leaving with several of his colleagues and forty students to found the Southern...
GSD Assistant Professor in Architecture Joseph R. MacDonald said Mayne’s talent is not limited to a narrow definition.
Mayne said he believes contemporary architecture is defined by a cleavage between aesthetically based interpretations—the way a building looks—and values based interpretations—what a project symbolizes and contributes. Mayne said he strives to couch his projects in the latter rubric.
More than anything else, Mayne said he flees from the definition of architecture as either radical or successful, instead trying to phrase his own questions and articulate our culture’s problems.