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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

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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

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

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

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

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

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

Surveys often show people would prefer a detached house with a lawn and driveway to an apartment. I understand this. It's not my place to presume to tell people where they can live. But perhaps that dream will simply not be possible in the future. Norman Foster

Future People Will Live Possible Tell Presume Detached Dream Would Lawn Driveway Simply Perhaps House Understand Surveys Often Where Place Apartment Prefer Show Show People

Control is the wrong word. The practice is very much about sharing, and, in any creative practice, some individuals, whether partners or directors, are much closer to certain projects than I could ever be. Norman Foster

I think you never stop learning. Norman Foster

You Learning Think Never Never Stop Stop

Joseph Bazalgette created a sewer system which he originally sized for London's needs of the time - he then doubled it to anticipate the future beyond. These are the qualities that I admire. Norman Foster

Future Time Needs Sewer System Admire London He Joseph Beyond Qualities Anticipate Sized Which Then Created Originally

I travel continuously, and I see many cities, but there is nowhere like London. Norman Foster

Travel Cities See London Like Continuously Many Nowhere

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