Air Date
October 12, 2017

In this interview, Meg Whitman speaks of her upbringing on Long Island, New York to her career in Silicon Valley. She draws connections between a passion for team sports played during childhood to her role as an engaged team-builder today. As a female business leader, Whitman learned to take risks in a male-dominated industry. Behind it all, the importance of change, adaptability, and sustainability are themes that have shadowed her voyage from business school student to successful CEO.

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.

Meg Whitman

23 Dec, 02:03 PM
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