Toshiko Mori, Architect, New York City and the Robert Hubbard Professor in Practice of Architecture at Harvard University Graduate School of Design will be delivering a lecture titled 'MATERIAL/IMMATERIAL' Wednesday, March 13th at 6pm in Wood Auditorium.



Toshiko Mori established her firm, Toshiko Mori Architect in New York City in 1981. She is NCARB certified and registered in New York, Massachusetts, Florida and Maine. Her projects embrace specificity of context with conceptual clarity in order to arrive at creative resolution that balances internality and externality of architectural experience. She has collaborated with artists and landscape architects in the past to engage architecture as part of an artistic dialogue to extend its territory to the natural and manmade world beyond the boundary of a building footprint.



Her twenty-four years as a practicing architect has produced projects that range from houses in Florida, Maine, Connecticut, New York City and Israel, to Museum projects in Maine, Institutional projects in New York (Renovation of 1804 Stuyvesant Fish House for a new President's house for Cooper Union) and Maine (Farnsworth Museum Louise Nevelson Wing), to an Art foundation, which is a renovation of an old Mill in Georgia, boat house proposal for Hudson River waterfront, and exhibition design for Museum of Modern Art in New York City. Her specific area of interest is innovation in materials and fabrication methods for architecture using both new and traditional materials and techniques for integration of architecture with light and landscape.



Additional awards include Shinkenchiku Central Glass competition, Architectural League's Emerging Voices in 1992, Art Director's Club Silver Medal and I.D. Annual Design Award for Exhibition design for MOMA, NYC/ AIA Architecture Award for Cohen house in Florida and Presidential Alumni Citation at Cooper Union.

Ms. Mori has been Professor of Practice of Architecture with tenure at Harvard University Graduate School of Design since 1995. Previous to this appointment, she was an Associate Professor at Cooper Union for 14 years. She also held the Eero Saarinen Professorship at Yale University in 1992 and has been a visiting critic at both Yale University and Columbia University.

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