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Neri Oxman
American
Architect
Born:
1976
Design
Made
Nature
Think
World
You
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There is a very beautiful expression in the Hebrew language that's borrowed from spoken Torah... 'All is predicted, and permission is given at any point to change anything.' I think I live by this idiom in the sense that there is always a goal; there is always something to look forward to in life and my creative search, and that goal is there.
Neri Oxman
Life
Beautiful
Change
Creative
Language
Sense
Live
Think
Torah
Borrowed
Something
Given
Point
Spoken
Look
Idiom
Always
Permission
Goal
Very
Any
Anything
Predicted
Hebrew
Forward
Search
Expression
We need to treat the planet as a system, and up until now, we've operated more as if the world were made of separate parts - this part is environment, this part is economy. But everything is connected. You can't fix global warming with a Ph.D. in thermodynamics!
Neri Oxman
You
World
Treat
Made
Everything
System
More
Part
Environment
Economy
Global
Until
Global Warming
Operated
Parts
Were
Up
Fix
Warming
Planet
Separate
Connected
Thermodynamics
Now
Need
Rarely do we see immediate use of innovative technologies. I believe that the future is built by small pieces that add up.
Neri Oxman
Future
Believe
Add
Innovative
Immediate
See
Rarely
Small
Pieces
Built
Up
Use
Technologies
The future of design is a future where anything material in the environment - whether it's wearables, cars, buildings - can be designed with this variation of properties and relationship with the environment that can take part in the natural ecology.
Neri Oxman
Future
Relationship
Natural
Car
Design
Variation
Properties
Ecology
Take
Part
Environment
Buildings
Material
Where
Anything
Whether
Designed
In the end, it's clear that the incorporation of synthetic biology in product and architectural design will enable the transition from designs that are inspired by nature to designs made with and by nature to, possibly, designing nature herself.
Neri Oxman
Nature
Will
Made
Design
Biology
Herself
Synthetic
Possibly
Architectural
Inspired
Clear
Enable
End
In The End
Transition
Product
Designing
Designs
I believe in the balance between dreaming and building.
Neri Oxman
Balance
Building
Believe
Dreaming
Between
The world of design has been subjugated by the rigors of manufacturing and mass production.
Neri Oxman
World
Design
Has-Been
Mass
Mass Production
Been
Production
Manufacturing
When you celebrate a new idea, it immediately comes through the way you hold yourself and the clothes you wear.
Neri Oxman
You
Celebrate
Yourself
Clothes
Way
Immediately
Wear
Through
Idea
New
New Idea
Hold
In many ways, I think I'm still forming my ideas about my own identity in this world.
Neri Oxman
World
Own
Think
Ways
About
My Own
Ideas
Identity
Still
Forming
Many
Binaries aside, we are the products of our relationships with our identities - cities we have built, bodies we have embraced, kindred souls we've cherished, our memories, our dreams, the fears we hide, the pain we hold - identities that cannot be reduced to a collection of labels.
Neri Oxman
Dreams
Memories
Hide
Fears
Pain
Relationships
Our
Our Dreams
Cities
Collection
Embraced
Kindred
Identities
Souls
Built
Reduced
Cherished
Labels
Hold
Cannot
Aside
Bodies
Products
For the same reason we have the Brad Pitts and the George Clooneys, it's just part of human nature to idolize stereotypes.
Neri Oxman
Nature
Human Nature
Part
Stereotypes
Brad
George
Same
Human
Just
Reason
Because glass is at once structural and transparent, it is relatively easy to consider the integration of structural and environmental building performance within a single integrated skin.
Neri Oxman
Environmental
Single
Building
Skin
Consider
Relatively
Once
Easy
Structural
Glass
Performance
Because
Within
Integrated
Integration
Transparent
I am equally fascinated and awed by visiting an Alexander McQueen show as I am looking under a microscope.
Neri Oxman
Looking
Alexander
Visiting
Equally
Am
Microscope
McQueen
Show
Fascinated
Could we design an all-glass building with internal channels and networks for airflow and water circulation? Can we surpass the great modern tradition of discrete formal and functional partitions and generate an all-in-one building skin?
Neri Oxman
Great
Water
Building
Skin
Design
Channels
Circulation
Networks
Could
Generate
Surpass
Tradition
Discrete
Modern
Formal
Internal
Functional
I don't think of fashion as fashion or biology as biology.
Neri Oxman
Fashion
Think
Biology
I don't think I would have made for a good doctor. It was not meant to be, and it took me a long time to realize that.
Neri Oxman
Time
Good
Me
Doctor
Made
Long
Long Time
Think
Took
Would
Realize
Meant
Meant To Be
In traditional 3D printing, the gantry size poses an obvious limitation for the designer who wishes to print in larger scales and achieve structural and material complexity.
Neri Oxman
Achieve
Scales
Complexity
Structural
Wishes
Obvious
Print
Limitation
Printing
Material
Traditional
Size
Who
Larger
Designer
Poses
A great dream of mine would be to run a design studio full of scientists who think about science as creatively as if they were doing art.
Neri Oxman
Art
Great
Science
Design
Think
Mine
Run
Dream
Would
Would-Be
About
Studio
Doing
Scientists
Were
Full
Who
Creatively
The second-most abundant biopolymer on the planet is called chitin, and some 100 million tons of it are produced every year by organisms such as shrimps, crabs, scorpions, and butterflies. We thought if we could tune its properties, we could generate structures that are multifunctional out of a single part.
Neri Oxman
Thought
Single
Year
Every
Out
Some
Properties
Structures
Could
Generate
Part
Abundant
Scorpions
Crabs
Tune
Planet
Produced
Organisms
Million
Butterflies
Tons
I'm not a mother of children, but I'm a different type of mother where my approach to design is more in line with nature. It's less about dictating and more about editing and listening and allowing something to grow. So I nourish and let the material express what it wants to be.
Neri Oxman
Nature
Editing
Mother
Listening
Design
Type
Approach
About
Something
More
Allowing
Material
Line
Where
Children
Different
Wants
Less
Nourish
Express
Grow
Different Type
All great cinema has the sense of the dynamic, the transitional, mixed with the mythical and the sense of ritual.
Neri Oxman
Great
Cinema
Sense
Ritual
Mythical
Mixed
Dynamic
Transitional
How can we reinterpret 3-D printing in a way that suggests a new design language?
Neri Oxman
Language
Design
Way
New
Printing
How
Forms in nature are a byproduct of a reciprocal action between a given material and the conditions of the environment. But in architecture, the process is the direct opposite: First you decide on the form, and then you think how to build it in reality.
Neri Oxman
Nature
You
Reality
Architecture
First
Build
Action
Think
Reciprocal
Direct
Given
Environment
Between
How
Material
Opposite
Conditions
Form
Decide
Process
Forms
Then
I object to the hegemony of form in contemporary architecture. We have very advanced technological tools, but ultimately, we create buildings exactly like we used to before: We send the drawings to an engineer and let him struggle with figuring out how to build it.
Neri Oxman
Struggle
Architecture
Engineer
Build
Before
Tools
Drawings
Out
Exactly
Object
Advanced
Like
Contemporary
Him
Buildings
How
Ultimately
Very
Send
Form
Hegemony
Create
Used
Figuring
Technological
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