Thom Mayne (b. January 19, 1944 in Waterbury, Connecticut) is a wiely recognized Los Angeles based architect. Educated at University of Southern California (1969) and the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, Mayne helped found the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-ARC) in 1972. Since then he has held teaching positions at both SCI-ARC and UCLA. He is principal of Morphosis, a renowned architectural office located in Santa Monica, California. Mayne received the Pritzker Prize in March 2005.