A Problem With Authority; Thom Mayne hates playing by the rules. So what's he doing designing government buildings? His own thing, natch.(architect)

Publication: Newsweek

Publication Date: 23-MAY-05

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Byline: Cathleen McGuigan

Thom Mayne hasn't been sleeping well. The radical L.A. architect, whose edgy designs seem to mirror his notoriously intense personality, keeps waking up from anxiety dreams. "They're all connected to figures of authority," he says. We don't need Freud to figure this one out. Mayne, 61, a true child of the '60s, has spent most of his career as a rebel outside the architectural mainstream--teaching, entering design competitions, creating dense, hyperkinetic small projects and basically staying faithful to his own gestalt. (At one point, his funky Santa Monica office was down to half a dozen employees, and Mayne was broke.) But he's no longer operating on the fringe: this month he'll be awarded...

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