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Hall properly applied certain physics principles, like vertical aerodynamic force, to his cars that enabled Chaparral to dominate the racing scene for a majority of the 1960s. Hall credits his success to his education stating that, "The time I spent studying math, and doing things that I couldn't quite see the use for when I was a youngster really turned out to be valuable to me."
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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