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Thom Mayne: U.S. Federal Office Building, San Francisco

Thom Mayne: U.S. Federal Office Building, San Francisco

29 min · Documentary

The Pritzker-prize winning architect Thom Mayne has been identified with muscular, bold, steel-and-glass design since the founding of his firm, Morphosis, in 1971. Through a tour of the Federal Office Building in San Francisco, Mayne proves that innovative and sustainable architecture can be introduced successfully into a building type typically considered predictable and boring.

Directed by Tom Piper

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