article_snippet: Based in Los Angeles, the principal of architectural firm Morphosis, has won the Rome Prize Fellowship and Pritzker Prize among many.
article_snippet: The American architect is known for his bold and unconventional works, in particular the buildings' offset angular forms, layered exterior walls, incorporation of giant letter and number graphics.
article_snippet: In recent years, his firm's architecture has created more layered visual effects which has been made possible increasingly through computer design techniques, which simplify the construction of complex forms.
article_snippet: In 1972, Mayne, Livio Santini, James Stafford and Michael Brickler founded Morphosis.
article_snippet: Mayne, Livio Santini, James Stafford and Michael Brickler spent Mayne, Livio Santini, James Stafford and Michael Brickler free time experimenting with new inventions for Mayne, Livio Santini, James Stafford and Michael Brickler clients, whom consisted of friends and parents of students.
article_snippet: The firm's design philosophy arises from an interest in producing work with a meaning that can be understood by absorbing the culture for which it was made, and their goal was to develop an architecture that would eschew the normal bounds of traditional forms .
article_snippet: The firm has grown into prominent design practice, with completed projects worldwide.