Saturday Evening Girls

Air Date
June 25, 2024

In Boston in 1908, librarian Edith Guerrier and her friend and artist Edith Brown started a club for young women called Saturday Evening Girls. Mostly Italian and Jewish immigrant girls, the group met when they had free time — on Saturday evenings. As part of a settlement house, they read classics and performed theatricals but, most importantly, learned how to decorate pottery.

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.

Saturday Evening Girls

15 Jan, 12:50 PM
<p>In Boston in 1908, librarian Edith Guerrier and her friend and artist Edith Brown started a club for young women called Saturday Evening Girls. Mostly Italian and Jewish immigrant girls, the group met when they had free time &mdash; on Saturday evenings. As part of a settlement house, they read classics and performed theatricals but, most importantly, learned how to decorate pottery. </p>