Thom MAYNE

American architect, founder and principal of the architectural practice “Morphosis”, professor at the “University of California” (UCLA), Los Angeles | 1954  born in Waterbury, Connecticut | 1968 graduates from the school of architecture at the “University of Southern California” (USC) | 1974 founds “Morphosis” together with James STAFFORD | 1978 completes his postgraduate studies at the graduate school of design at “Harvard University” | 1994 becomes member of the “National Academy of Design” | 2005 receives Pritzker Architecture Prize | 2010 becomes member of the “American Academy of Arts and Letters” | 2019 “Austrian Decoration of Honour for Science and Art”