Thursday / September 29, 2016 / 5:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Dialogue in Architecture: An Evening with Toshiko Mori
Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts, University of Chicago, 915 East 60th Street, Chicago
The Frank Lloyd Wright Trust's annual Thinking Into the Future: The Robie House Series on Architecture, Design and Ideas presents a conversation with acclaimed architect Toshiko Mori, FAIA, who will discuss how architecture develops languages and dialogues that reflect and respond to complex circumstances and contexts.
As principal of Toshiko Mori Architect, also known as TMA, Toshiko designed the Visitor Center at Frank Lloyd Wright's Darwin D. Martin House in Buffalo, NY. She is known for her sensitivity to history and the environment in her designs and materials. Toshiko has undertaken high profile projects referencing great modern architects, including Wright, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, and Philip Johnson.
TMA’s projects are represented in international exhibitions, including the 2012 and 2014 Venice Architecture Biennales. The firm's recent work includes the Cambridge Headquarters for the Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research, the School of Environmental Research & Technology for Brown University, a canopy for the Brooklyn Children’s Museum, and retail spaces for clothing designer Issey Miyake in New York City. The firm has also designed a number of residential projects.
Toshiko is the Robert P. Hubbard Professor in the Practice of Architecture at Harvard University Graduate School of Design. She is founder of VisionArc, a think tank promoting global dialogue for a sustainable future, and one of the founders of Paracoustica, a nonprofit promoting music in underserved communities.
5:00 pm cocktail reception
6:00 pm presentation
Tickets:
$25 general public
$5 students
$20 Wright Trust members; University of Chicago alumni, staff, teachers; and AIA Chicago members
Click here to purchase a ticket.
Taking Frank Lloyd Wright's forward-thinking philosophy as expressed in the Frederick C. Robie House, Thinking into the Future: The Robie House Series on Architecture, Design and Ideas engages leading voices in conversations about design issues in contemporary society. Designed in 1908, Frank Lloyd Wright's Robie House is considered one of the ten most important architectural works of the 20th century.
The Frank Lloyd Wright Trust is a Chicago-based not-for-profit organization that provides public tours and educational programs at major Wright-designed structures, including his Home and Studio (1889/1898) and Unity Temple (1905-10) in Oak Park, Ill.; the Frederick C. Robie House (1908-10) in Chicago’s Hyde Park neighborhood; The Rookery Light Court (1905) in the Chicago Loop; and Emil Bach House (1915) in Chicago’s Rogers Park neighborhood. For more information, visit flwright.org.
Martin House Visitors Center photo: © Iwan Baan, courtesy TMA
