| Air Date | January 23, 2017 |
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As a young man, Paul Stankard took a fresh look at the art of paperweights. Trained as a scientific glassblower, Paul essentially taught himself how to make a paperweight and, over a period of years mastered the art. Then, he took that mastery to a higher level. Stankard elevated the humble paperweight to the level of fine art by creating a personal vision of nature inside of unusual and innovative shapes and forms.
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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