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" For the same reason we have the Brad Pitts and the George Clooneys, it's just part of human nature to idolize stereotypes. "

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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. "

" Rarely do we see immediate use of innovative technologies. I believe that the future is built by small pieces that add up. "

" Look at spiders. They use about eight different properties of silk for different functions. The spider is like a multimaterial 3D printer. "

" 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. "

" Nature is a brilliant engineer and builder. It knows how to create seashells that are twice as strong as the most resistant ceramics human beings can manufacture, and it produces silk fibers five times stronger than steel. Nature also knows how to create multipurpose forms. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I like to mostly wear very simple clothes. "

" I don't think of fashion as fashion or biology as biology. "

" I am equally fascinated and awed by visiting an Alexander McQueen show as I am looking under a microscope. "

" 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?' "

" 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! "

" 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. "

" Although I often find that the feminist rhetoric - not feminism - can come across as simple-minded, self-regarding, nuance-averse and reductive - biology to physiology, history to psychology, procreation to gynecology, and so on - I have come to realize that we should all be feminists. "

" 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? "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" When you celebrate a new idea, it immediately comes through the way you hold yourself and the clothes you wear. "

" 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. "

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

" In many ways, I think I'm still forming my ideas about my own identity in this world. "

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

" 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. "

" Gender is more of a continuum than we are willing to admit when we hit the restroom. "

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

" I believe in the balance between dreaming and building. "

" 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. "

" One cannot separate the spider web's form from the way in which it originated. "