A Pritzker prize-winning architect has been appointed to president Barack Obama’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities.
Thom Mayne is founder of Morphosis Architects, co-founder of the Southern California Institute of Architecture and Distinguished Professor at UCLA Architecture and Urban Design, where he extensively researches and publishes on contemporary urbanism.
Recipient of the Pritzker Architecture Prize, Mayne’s architectural projects include the San Francisco Federal Building, the Cooper Union academic building in Manhattan, Phare Tower in Paris, and the FLOAT House — an affordable, sustainable, and pre-fabricated housing prototype in New Orleans.
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