| Air Date | July 5, 2010 |
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Become acquainted with "third dimensional thinking", Alfred Taubman's perspective on the way inventive people look at things with an eye to making them better. Explore the relationship between design and taste, and then join Taubman in a considered look at the rise of the mall, the multifaceted nature of retailing, and the power of threshold resistance as a window for gaining insight into the shopping experience.
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.
Toshiko Mori
I would say every architect that I know is a philosopher on his or her own.
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