Toshiko Mori

Toshiko Mori (born 1951) is a Japanese architect and the founder and principal of New York-based Toshiko Mori Architect, PLLC and Vision Arc. She is also the Robert P. Hubbard Professor in the Practice of Architecture at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design.[1] In 1995, she became the first female faculty member to receive tenure at the GSD.[2]

Education

Mori graduated from Cooper Union in 1971, the Cooper Union School of Architecture in 1976. She then received an Honorary MArch from Harvard Graduate School of Design, in 1996.[1]

Career

Prior to establishing her own firm, Toshiko Mori worked for Edward Larrabee Barnes.[3] Mori is licensed as an architect in Connecticut, Florida, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, and Washington, D.C.. At the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, she received tenure in 1995 and chaired the Department of Architecture from 2002–2008. Mori has taught at the graduate level at Cooper Union School of Architecture, Columbia University, and Yale University.[1]

Mori is known for her "concern with material innovation and conceptual clarity."[4] Her projects include the A.R.T. New York theater, the canopy at the Brooklyn Children's Museum, Pembroke Hall at Brown University, exhibit design at MoMA and the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, and numerous residential projects in the United States, Taiwan, China, and Austria.[5][6][7]

As a member of the World Economic Forum's Global Agenda Council on the Future of Cities, Mori leads research and inquiry into sustainable architecture, enhancing cities' livability, and creating efficient urban services.[8] Mori is also on the board of directors of Architecture For Humanity, a nonprofit dedicated to design innovation and community involvement.[9]

She has been the recipient of numerous international awards and honors, and her work has been widely exhibited and published. She was awarded the Cooper Union's inaugural John Hejduk Award in 2003. In 2005, she received the Academy Award in Architecture from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, as well as the Medal of Honor from the American Institute of Architects New York Chapter.[10] Her projects have been exhibited in the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum’s “Design Life Now: National Design Triennial 2006” and at the Guggenheim Museum.[11]

A monograph of her work, Toshiko Mori Architect, was published by Monacelli Press in 2008. She has contributed to many publications, as well as editing a volume on material and fabrication research, Immaterial/Ultramaterial.[12]

In 2014, Mori was recognized for her work designing the Poe Park Visitor Center, a winning site of Built by Women New York City,[13] a competition launched by the Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation during the fall of 2014 to identify outstanding and diverse sites and spaces designed, engineered and built by women.

In 2015, Mori's ecological cultural center in the Senegalese village of Sinthian opened.[14] The building's pitched roof is a sophisticated water-collection system that siphons rainwater into a cistern, providing 30 percent of Sinthian's overall consumption.[15]

Awards and Honors

Exhibitions

List of Major Works

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Toshiko Mori". Faculty Directory. Harvard Graduate School of Design. Retrieved 8 March 2015.
  2. ↑ Zhou, Lulu. "GSD Prof Alleges Discrimination in Department". The Harvard Crimson. Retrieved 19 March 2015.
  3. ↑ BERNSTEIN, FRED (May 8, 2005). "Building on Sacred Ground". The New York Times. Retrieved 31 March 2015.
  4. ↑ Kubo, Michael (May 2009). "Greatbatch pavilion: Toshiko Mori". Architectural Review. 225 (1347): 58–61.
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "Projects list". Toshiko Mori Architect. Retrieved 8 March 2015.
  6. ↑ Giron, Will. "Brooklyn Children's Museum Unveils Plans for New Eco-Friendly Rooftop Canopy". Inhabitat. Retrieved 8 March 2015.
  7. ↑ Baum, Deborah. "Brown University to Rededicate Pembroke Hall on Oct. 17". News from Brown. Brown University. Retrieved 8 March 2015.
  8. ↑ "Global Agenda Council on the Future of Cities 2014-2016". World Economic Forum. Retrieved 8 March 2015.
  9. ↑ "Architecture For Humanity". Retrieved 8 March 2015.
  10. ↑ "Toshiko Mori (expert biography)". Holcim Foundation. Retrieved 8 March 2015.
  11. ↑ Bloemink, Barbara J. (2006). Design Life Now. Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution.
  12. ↑ "Publications list". Toshiko Mori Architect. Retrieved 8 March 2015.
  13. ↑ "Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation Hosts Leadership Awards Gala, Kicks off Built By Women Exhibition". Architectural Record. Retrieved March 8, 2015.
  14. ↑ Kwok, Natasha. "toshiko mori's ecological cultural center in senegal set to open". Design Boom. Retrieved 8 March 2015.
  15. ↑ Volner, Ian (3 March 2015). "Senegal's Cutting-Edge Artists' Residency". Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 8 March 2015.
  16. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 "Toshiko Mori Architect". Retrieved 11 March 2015.
  17. ↑ "CMCA".
  18. ↑ "Arch Daily".
  19. ↑ "Vision Arc Projects". Retrieved 13 March 2015.
  20. ↑ "Thread". Retrieved 13 March 2015.

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