Don’t let doing the right thing cramp your style…
Thom Mayne doesn’t let doing the right thing cramp his style.
The 2005 Pritzker Prize winner, whose Santa Monica-based firm Morphosis has won plaudits for the aesthetic originality, cultural sensitivity and overall sustainability of its buildings, rejects the notion that green buildings have to look a certain way and bristles at overly specific green building standards.
A keynoter at 2007’s Greenbuild conference in Chicago, Mayne practices ecologically sensitive design but refuses to be co-opted by any particular movement. LEED is far from perfect, in his estimation.
A simpler system, grounded in bottom-line metrics and weighted toward a building’s long-term performance, would be more to his liking.
