Alice Waters

Air Date
August 6, 2018

Waters founded and owns Chez Panisse Restaurant, the flagship of “California cuisine,” a culinary innovation focused on locally sourced organic foods, prepared with precision and care. Waters founded the Edible Schoolyard to reform school lunch programs and engage children in food literacy.

Architect

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.

Why She Innovates

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 Interview Highlights Transcript

Toshiko Mori

I would say every architect that I know is a philosopher on his or her own.

Alice Waters

23 Dec, 12:33 PM
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