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Throughout her career as a practicing architect and educator, Toshiko Mori has pursued a technical interest in the properties of materials, and especially synthetic materials, in addition to her concerns for purity of line, visual lightness and thermal performance.
As an architect, Toshiko Mori has always taken a personal delight in discovering new properties and potentials in materials. Whether designing exhibitions, houses or institutional projects such as the Visitor Center for Frank Lloyd Wright’s Darwin D. Martin House in Buffalo, New York, she enjoys a process that combines intuition with the rigor of research.
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Toshiko Mori
Throughout her career as a practicing architect and educator, Toshiko Mori has pursued a technical interest in the properties of materials--and especially synthetic materials--in addition to her concerns for purity of line, visual lightness and thermal performance.
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Creativity From Scarcity
with Toshiko Mori
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Building For Energy Efficiency
with Toshiko Mori
Length: 3:36 -
Materials Come First
with Toshiko Mori
Length: 1:58 -
My Philosophy Of Architecture
with Toshiko Mori
Length: 1:55 -
Weaving And Technnology Transfer
with Toshiko Mori
Length: 2:41 -
Collaboration For Innovation
with Toshiko Mori
Length: 2:07 -
Women Are More Collaborative
with Toshiko Mori
Length: 2:43 -
Literature Informs My Architecture
with Toshiko Mori
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How Does Innovation Happen
with Toshiko Mori
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Architecture Is A Social Art
with Toshiko Mori
Length: 1:27 -
Teaching Is The Birth Right Of An Architect
with Toshiko Mori
Length: 1:43
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William McDonough
Architect & Designer
McDonough is best known as a pioneer in the green design movement, creating buildings, designs, and strategies that are "environmentally intelligent."
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Buckminster Fuller
Visionary Thinker, Serial Entrepreneur
For Buckminster Fuller, the answer was usually yes—though not necessarily as planned or envisioned.
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