Ann Marie Sastry

Air Date
February 24, 2012

Don't work in isolation and don't work with everyone who is just like you. Collaboration with people who bring different ideas and life experiences to the table is key. Sastry comments that she often asks job candidates what they want said about them at their retirement dinner, but Sastry herself has no intention of ever retiring.

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.

Ann Marie Sastry

23 Dec, 11:08 AM
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