Parnelli Jones

Air Date
October 26, 2017
Parnelli Jones won races just about everywhere: on dirt tracks, in NASCAR, at Pikes Peak, and in off-road Baja events. But Jones is particularly noted for his accomplishments at the Indianapolis 500, where he set a qualifying speed record in 1962, won the race in 1963, and nearly won it again in 1967 with a turbine-engine car. Jones scored two more Indy 500 wins as a team owner in 1970 and 1971. Jones reflects on his long, successful career in this interview.

About the Innovator

Toshiko Mori Interview Transcript
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

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

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Parnelli Jones

22 Dec, 02:52 PM
Parnelli Jones won races just about everywhere: on dirt tracks, in NASCAR, at Pikes Peak, and in off-road Baja events. But Jones is particularly noted for his accomplishments at the Indianapolis 500, where he set a qualifying speed record in 1962, won the race in 1963, and nearly won it again in 1967 with a turbine-engine car. Jones scored two more Indy 500 wins as a team owner in 1970 and 1971. Jones reflects on his long, successful career in this interview.