Artist in Residence
Thom Mayne
firm’s work encompasses a wide range of project types ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE
and scales including residential, institutional, and civic
buildings as well as large urban planning projects such
as the winning proposal for the NYC2012 Olympic
Village and the widely recognized urban research
initiative, LA Now.
Mayne’s distinguished honors include the Pritzker
Prize in 2005, the McDowell Medal in 2008, the 2006
National Design Award from the Cooper Hewitt, the
Rome Prize in 1987, the Alumni of the Year award
from USC, invitation to membership in the American
Academy of Arts and Letters in 1992, and the 2000
Award-winning architect Thom Mayne founded Morphosis
American Institute of Architects/Los Angeles Gold Medal
in 1972 as an interdisciplinary and collective practice
in Architecture.
involved in experimental design and research.
Mayne was born in 1944. He received his Bachelor of
Recent award-winning projects include the San Francisco
Architecture degree from the University of Southern
Federal Building, the Wayne L. Morse United States
California in 1968 and his Master of Architecture from
Courthouse, the University of Cincinnati Student Recreation
Harvard University in 1978. Throughout his career,
Center, Hypo Bank in Udine, Italy, and Social Housing in
he has remained active in the academic world. He
Madrid, Spain. Projects on the boards and/or in construction
was a co-founder of the influential Southern California
include the Phare Tower in Paris, France, the Museum of
Institute of Architecture and currently holds a tenured
Nature and Science in Dallas, TX, the Giant Group Campus
professorship at the UCLA School of the Arts and
in Shanghai, China, and the New Academic Building for the
Architecture.
Cooper Union in New York City, which is slated to complete
construction in June 2009. With projects worldwide, the
Cinematographer Frederick Elmes, A.S.C. studied
Thom Mayne in Conversation
photography at the Rochester Institute of Technology and
with Frederick Elmes
film at the American Film Institute in Los Angeles and New
Join us as Thom Mayne and acclaimed cinematographer
York University's Department of Film and Television. He has
Frederick Elmes engage in a fascinating dialogue about
collaborated with film director David Lynch on such films as
architecture and cinema. Screening specific film references,
Eraserhead, Blue Velvet, and Wild at Heart. He has won the
Independent Spirit Award for Best Cinematography twice, for
they will offer insight into their work with light and space to
Lynch’s Wild at Heart and Jim Jarmusch’s Night on Earth. Other
create both imagined and living environments.
credits include Broken Flowers, The Namesake, The Ice Storm,
Kinsey, and Synecdoche, New York.
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