"My buildings don’t speak in words but by means of their own spaciousness." ― Thom Mayne Topic(s): Friendship Tags: buildings, speak More From Thom Mayne "You might say that when you step inside, you’re entering a honorific space, but that’s something totally different than experiencing it. And in architecture the experience comes first. That has the deepest effect on us." "Architecture is involved with the world, but at the same time it has a certain autonomy. This autonomy cannot be explained in terms of traditional logic because the most interesting parts of the work are non-verbal. They operate within the terms of the work, like any art." "I’m often called an old-fashioned modernist. But the modernists had the absurd idea that architecture could heal the world. That’s impossible. And today nobody expects architects to have these grand visions any more." More In Friendship "The American dream is about freedom."― Nancy Pelosi "Often the magical elements in my books are standing in for elements of the real world, the small and magical-in-their-own-right sorts of things that we take for granted and no longer pay attention to, like the bonds of friendship that entwine our own lives with those of other people and places."― Charles de Lint "But it all comes down to friendship, treating people right."― Ernie Banks