morphosis

hmm…the walls seem to have ears around here. just as i was saying how thom mayne and morphosis deserved more attention than many of todays darling child(ren) of architecture, the ny times features an article about morphosis and thom maynes rising prominence. (its about time…)

back in my formative years of college when i was still fumbling my way thru conceptual design, i latched implicitly onto the works of two architects…zaha hadid, who just won the 2004 pritzker, and thom mayne of morphosis. while zaha preferred clean lines and a somewhat minimalist approach, mayne engaged architecture thru the opposite means…something along the lines of “excessivism“. dynamic and explosive forms that seem to generate extra dimensions of space within themselves. and while hes well respected in the architecture circles, his recognition had always seemed overshadowed in the publics eye by the likes of gehry, koolhaas, etc. now as one of the finalists of the olympic village proposal, along with a recent commission for the cooper union and a competition piece for a site next to the walt disney concert hall, morphosis will hopefully rise to the public prominence in architecture that so many architects and critics have seen for years.

> morphosis (via ny times)
> olympic village proposal post
> morphosis website