Thom Mayne is founding partner of Morphosis, a global architecture firm engaged in architecture, urban planning, and research since 1972. Based in Los Angeles, New York, Dubai, Seoul, and Shanghai with projects world-wide, Morphosis’ work represents a wide variety of scales and typologies, from civic projects, schools, and museums to commercial towers and city planning. Recent projects include the new Orange County Museum of Art, in Costa Mesa, California; Hanking Center Tower, a super-tall commercial sky-scraper in Shenzhen, China; and the ongoing new US Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon. Mayne's distinguished honors include the Pritzker Prize (2005) and the American Institute of Architects Gold Medal (2013). He was a founding faculty member of the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc), and served on the President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities under President Obama, between 2009-2016. With Morphosis, Thom Mayne has been the recipient of 29 Progressive Architecture Awards, over 120 American Institute of Architecture Awards and numerous other design recognitions. Morphosis works have been published extensively. The firm has been the subject of numerous exhibitions and over 30 monographs. Mayne and Morphosis’ models and artistic works are in the collections of the MoMA, The Victoria and Albert Museum, SFMOMA, The Art Institute of Chicago, the Frac Centre, the Carnegie Museum, the Denver Art Museum, and other institutions internationally.