After Hernán Díaz Alonso’s introduction, Thom Mayne discusses his work in terms of four categories of inquiry:
•Making, Material
•Nature, Ground
•Context, Connect
•Organization, Form
He discusses many projects under these categories, some under more than one:

MAKING, MATERIAL
Kate Mantilini (1986); Cedars-Sinai Comprehensive Cancer Center (1988); Hypo Alpe-Adria Center (2002); Tsunami Asian Gril & Sushi (1999); SHR Perceptual Management (1999); Stage sets for Charleroi Dances’ “Silent collisions” (2003); Clyde Frazier’s (2012); 2-4-6-8 house (1978); Venice III house (1986); University of Cincinnati Campus Recreation Center (2005); Giant Interactive Group Headquarters (2010); Perot Museum of Nature and Science (2012); Emerson College Los Angeles (2014); Kolon One & Only Tower (2018); Sun Tower (1997); Caltrans District 7 Headquarters (2005); San Francisco Federal Building (2007); Phare Tower project, designed 2006-2010; Bill & Melinda Gates Hall (2014); Hypo Alpe-Adria Bank (2006)

NATURE, GROUND
Reconceptualizing nature and building; Diamond Ranch High School (1999); Hypo Alpe-Adria Bank (2006); Giant Interactive Group Headquarters (2010); Hypo Alpe-Adria Bank (2006); Caltrans District 7 Headquarters (2005); AM Residence (2022)

CONTEXT, CONNECT
University of Toronto Graduate Student Housing (2000); Caltrans District 7 Headquarters (2005); San Francisco Federal Building (2007); Phare Tower project, designed 2006-2010; Hangking Center Tower (2020); Casablanca Finance City Tower (2019); 7132 Hotel & Arrival project, designed 2015-7; Wayne Lyman Morse United States Courthouse (2016); 41 Cooper Square (2009); Cahill Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics at Caltech (2008); Emerson College Los Angeles (2014); Perot Museum of Nature and Science (2012); Orange County Museum of Art (2022); Kolon One & Only Tower (2018); University of Cincinnati Campus Recreation Center (2005); Madrid housing (2006); Exploration and Production Business Center (2022); Yangtze River International Conference Center (2021); Beirut New Embassy Campus (2023)

ORGANIZATION, FORM
Blades residence (1997); Crawford residence (1990); ASE Design Center (1997); Copenhagen Competition (Hippocampus) (1996); Giant Interactive Group Headquarters (2010); Park, Beijing ; Ningbo Oceanside Pavilions ; Unicorn Island, Chengdu, designed 2018