| Air Date | December 20, 2017 |
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Mario Andretti personified the American dream. Born in war-torn Europe and immigrated to the United States, he fantasized about a life in racing. With hard work and unwavering focus, Andretti conquered everything from NASCAR to Formula One, and earned a place near the top of any list of racing's all-time greats.
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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