Neri Oxman Quotes

I often ask myself, 'What would design be like if objects were made of a single part? Would we return to a better state of creation?'

Neri Oxman

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

In nature, there is no separation between design, engineering, and fabrication; the bone does it all.

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

I grew up in a modernist house, in a modernist culture. There was a love for modernism everywhere - the furniture, the books, the food, even the cutlery. So I learned very early to appreciate the value of design and the value of architecture.

Neri Oxman

How can we reinterpret 3-D printing in a way that suggests a new design language?

Neri Oxman

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

I don't separate architecture, design, or culture. What's more important is a language of creativity that carries meaning.

Neri Oxman

At least since the Industrial Revolution, the world of design has been dominated by the rigors of manufacturing and mass production. Assembly lines have dictated a world made of parts, framing the imagination of designers and architects who have been trained to think about their objects as assemblies of discrete parts with distinct functions.

Neri Oxman

The world of design has been subjugated by the rigors of manufacturing and mass production.

Neri Oxman

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.

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Craft meets the machine in rapid fabrication. We can generate craft with the help of technology.

Neri Oxman

Prior to the Industrial Revolution, hand-production methods were abundant. Craft defined everything. The craftsman had an almost phenomenological knowledge of materials and intuited how to vary their properties according to their structural and environmental characteristics.

Neri Oxman

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