Thom Mayne
Founder and Design Principal
Morphosis

Thom Mayne, the 2005 Pritzker Architecture Prize laureate, is the founder and design principal of Morphosis, an interdisciplinary and collective architectural practice in Los Angeles involved in innovative design and rigorous research. The firm’s work ranges from residential, institutional, and civic buildings to large urban planning projects, with an emphasis on collaboration between designers and client that takes into account the unique requirements and aesthetic opportunities presented by the project, its site, and its context.

With Morphosis,Mayne has been the recipient of 25 progressive architecture awards, 54 AIA awards and numerous other design recognitions. Under his direction, the firm has been the subject of various group and solo exhibitions throughout the world, most notably at the Contemporary Art Center in Cincinnati, OH, the Walker Arts Institute in Minneapolis,MN, and a major retrospective at the Netherlands Architectural Institute in 1999 and the Ministerio de Fomento in Madrid in 1998.

Mayne founded the Southern California Institute of Architecture and has taught at Columbia University, Harvard University, Yale University, the Berlage Institute in the Netherlands, and the Bartlett School of Architecture in London. He currently is a faculty member at the UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture.

In addition to the Pritzker Prize, his honors include the National Design Award for Architecture (2006); the Rome Prize Fellowship; membership in the American Academy of Arts and Letters; and the American Institute of Architects/Los Angeles Gold Medal in Architecture (2000). He received his master of architecture degree from Harvard University.

In recognition of his extraordinary record of inspired design and achievements, New Jersey Institute of Technology is pleased to confer the degree of Doctor of Humane Letters, honoris causa, upon Thom Mayne.