The first female professor at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design: Who is Toshiko Mori?

Toshiko Mori is a Japanese architect born in 1951. She is also the Robert P. Hubbard Professor at Harvard University Graduate School of Design. She served as the head of the university's architecture department between 2002 and 2008.

In 1981, she founded Toshiko Mori Architect based in New York.

One of the details that makes her special is that she is the first female professor at Harvard University's Graduate School of Design. She worked in many different places until she took on this position. She has served as a faculty member at Cooper Union School of Architecture, Columbia, and Yale University.

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. In 1995, she became the first female faculty member to receive tenure at the GSD.

She has given training on structural innovations in architecture and how architects can be change educators in a global context. She is known for her interest in material innovation and conceptual clarity. Toshiko Mori became an architect known all over the world for her strong research-based approach to design and is still invited to many conferences.

He is one of the members of the Global Agenda Council on the Future of Cities of the World Economic Forum (a foundation based in Switzerland, which organizes conferences where the world's most important business people and politicians discuss problems around the world and find solutions). It leads research on improving the livability of cities, increasing the diversity and efficiency of urban services, scarcity-based design, sustainable architecture (architecture that aims to minimize the negative environmental impacts of buildings through efficiency and moderation in the use of materials, energy, development space and the ecosystem in general).

She also served on the board of directors of Architecture for Humanity, a non-governmental organization.

The works of Toshiko Mori, who was deemed worthy of many awards, were exhibited in various parts of the world and attracted great attention. In 2003, she received the Cooper Union Inaugural John Hejduk Award. In 2005, she was awarded the Academy Award for Architecture by the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Her works have been exhibited at the Guggenheim Museum and the Cooper Hewitt Museum.

In early 2009, she founded VisionArch, a think tank that connects local and global issues for a more sustainable future. Its aim is to find new opportunities to adapt designs to higher channels and higher application areas. That's why she presented her idea at the Singapore World Design Conference and the Bilbao Bizkaia B Prize Design Festival.

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In Her Maine Garden, Toshiko Mori Dreams of Plant-Based Buildings - The New York Times

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