Toshiko Mori Lecture at University of Houston

Toshiko Mori Lecture at University of Houston 

Language of Architecture

Lecture to be followed by a reception in the Atrium.

Architecture is a discipline that makes connections to site, history, legacy, tradition, culture, society, and the environment. Architecture speaks to and represents the thoughts of architects, giving definition to time and place. In Toshiko Mori’s projects, she develops languages and dialects that reflect, respond and communicate to complex circumstances; communities and contexts of architecture. Her manner of invention is in the dialogue it creates with time and place. It is neither an imposition nor a soliloquy. Instead, she creates a new ground of spatial experimentation which relates to environment, culture, practice and tradition. 

Therefore Architecture establishes itself in dialogue with multiple scales of circumstances and program. It develops into a full building; through technological integration, material manifestation, and aesthetic vision. In Mori’s opinion, architecture must possess multivalent capacity and pluralistic potential for its future destiny. She will speak about how, in her process of design and building, these capacities can embody and conceptualize the language of architecture.

Lecture followed by a reception in the Atrium

Parking: There will be an attendant allowing guests to use Gated Lot 18B
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