Los Angeles-based Pritzker Prize-winning architect Thom Mayne has been confirmed for three speaking engagements in Australia next month — travelling to Perth after talks in Sydney and Melbourne.
Known as one of the world’s most famous architects, Mayne will present to public audiences in Sydney on Tuesday 14 December, Melbourne on Wednesday 15 December, and Perth on Thursday 16 December as a guest of the Australian Institute of Architects’ International Speaker Series.
Over the past four decades, Mayne’s prizes have included one of the world’s most prestigious architecture awards, the Pritzker Prize, 25 Progressive Architecture Awards, and 75 American Institute of Architecture Awards. He’s also known for his consistent commitment to academia, and currently holds a tenured faculty position at the UCLA School of Arts and Architecture.
Mayne is best known as founder, design director and thought leader of leading architectural practice Morphosis. Recent well-known built works include 41 Cooper Street, New York; the Wayne Lyman Morse US Courthouse; the Cahill Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics at Caltech; and the San Francisco Federal Building.
He is also well known for the ‘FLOAT House’ in New Orleans - described as “a new kind of house: a house that can sustain its own water and power needs; a house that can survive the floodwaters generated by a storm the size of Hurricane Katrina; and perhaps most importantly, a house that can be manufactured cheaply enough to function as low-income housing”.
