Will Allen

Air Date
January 29, 2011
As the interview with Will Allen unfolds, you will see firsthand the combination of compassion, charisma and years of hands-on farming experience that have made him a formidable champion of urban farming. His success lies not just in solid farming practices, but in ingenuity, as well. His original two-acre farm in Milwaukee is notable not just for its urban location, but for the remarkable output that it has sustained.

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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Toshiko Mori

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

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Will Allen

19 Dec, 11:43 AM
As the interview with Will Allen unfolds, you will see firsthand the combination of compassion, charisma and years of hands-on farming experience that have made him a formidable champion of urban farming. His success lies not just in solid farming practices, but in ingenuity, as well. His original two-acre farm in Milwaukee is notable not just for its urban location, but for the remarkable output that it has sustained.