Starchitect Thom Mayne’s Apotheosis
13th August 2023
I haven’t been to the Nancy Pelosi building, but I’ve been to Mayne’s CalTrans building in downtown Los Angeles, and it radiates a palpable hatred toward the bureaucrats and visitors who must come into contact with it. Genius is said to be an infinite capacity for taking pains, but Mayne is a peculiar kind of genius, once with an infinite capacity for inflicting psychic pains on the public forced to deal with his buildings.