Neri Oxman Quotes

United States, Architect
1976

Neri Oxman is an American–Israeli architect, designer, and professor at the MIT Media Lab, where she leads the Mediated Matter research group. She is known for art and architecture that combine design, biology, computing, and materials engineering.

Also known as Designer

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
- Single
If you think about it, the printing press allowed everyone to print books - it democratised the printing of information. For the first time, we could all print.

Neri Oxman
- Time

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
All great cinema has the sense of the dynamic, the transitional, mixed with the mythical and the sense of ritual.

Neri Oxman
- Great
I appreciate good tailoring as much as good details of construction.

Neri Oxman
- Good
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
What I'm trying to do is bring certain of those engineering values into the design process, such that when you think about form you're already incorporating those performance criteria in the process of the generation of forms.

Neri Oxman
- Trying
- Design
- Values
I believe in the near future we will 3D print our buildings and houses.

Neri Oxman
- Future
- Buildings
- Houses