Architects need to "take responsibility for shaping the world" says Thom Mayne
Morphosis founder Thom Mayne, who is reportedly working on Saudi megacity The Line, explained his desire to work on complex, city-scale projects in a talk in New York City.
Speaking at a talk hosted by the AIA at the Center for Architecture in Manhattan, the Pritzker Architecture Prize winner said that his interest in complexity has led him to develop larger projects.
"Unfortunately, I won't be able to show you the two most interesting projects I have, and they're both cities," he said, including "a big planning thing in Saudi Arabia that I can't talk about."
"The scale will keep increasing and we have to keep up with it"
When prompted by architect Winka Dubbeldam, who was moderating the event, to "tell us a little bit about that city of the future without talking about the project", he said: "The ability to even construct complex organizational ideas, to deal with the huge variability of the issues in the systems [is what] you're doing."
His studio Morphosis is believed to be designing a 170-kilometre-long, mirrored megacity in Saudi Arabia called The Line.
"The scale will keep increasing and we have to keep up with it," said Mayne. "There needs to the advancement of something much more complex, as architects take responsibility for shaping the world."
"And that responsibility comes with risks, like all professions", he continued.
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