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" I am equally fascinated and awed by visiting an Alexander McQueen show as I am looking under a microscope. "
Neri Oxman
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I Am
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" Our facial skins are thin with large pores; our back skins are thicker with small pores. One acts mainly as filter, the other mainly as barrier. And yet, it's the same skin, no parts, no assemblies. It's a system that gradually varies its functionality by varying elasticity. "
Neri Oxman
Back
Filter
Same
" 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
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" I appreciate good tailoring as much as good details of construction. "
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Construction
Good
Details
" 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
Think
Imagination
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" The most beautiful products or the most elegant or seductive products, in my mind, are those that tell a story of a process. "
Neri Oxman
Mind
Process
Beautiful
" Craft meets the machine in rapid fabrication. We can generate craft with the help of technology. "
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Technology
Craft
Help
" 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
Building
Performance
Environmental
" I don't separate architecture, design, or culture. What's more important is a language of creativity that carries meaning. "
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More
Culture
" I like to think of synthetic biology as liquid alchemy, only instead of transmuting precious metals, you're synthesizing new biological functionality inside very small channels. It's called microfluidics. "
Neri Oxman
Small
Precious
Biology
" In many ways, I think I'm still forming my ideas about my own identity in this world. "
Neri Oxman
World
Ideas
Identity
" I believe in the balance between dreaming and building. "
Neri Oxman
Believe
Building
Balance
" I like to mostly wear very simple clothes. "
Neri Oxman
Very
Simple
Clothes
" 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
Revolution
Environmental
Knowledge
" 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
Printing
Obvious
Achieve
" 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
Everyone
You
Time
" 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
Think
Reality
Nature
" The world of design has been subjugated by the rigors of manufacturing and mass production. "
Neri Oxman
Design
World
Production
" How can we reinterpret 3-D printing in a way that suggests a new design language? "
Neri Oxman
Printing
New
Language
" 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
Design
Water
Skin
" 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
I Believe
" We've managed to motion-track the silkworm's movement as it is building its cocoon. Our aim was to translate the motion-capture data into a 3D printer connected to a robotic arm in order to study the biological structure in larger scales. "
Neri Oxman
Data
Aim
Building
" 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
Live
Life
Think
" One cannot separate the spider web's form from the way in which it originated. "
Neri Oxman
Web
Cannot
Form
" I approach the world as a whole by taking an integrative approach, not a world of parts, and I like to bring different fields and disciplines together. The same is true with my preoccupation with cultural expression. "
Neri Oxman
True
World
Expression
" Look at spiders. They use about eight different properties of silk for different functions. The spider is like a multimaterial 3D printer. "
Neri Oxman
Spider
Like
Different
" 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
Stereotypes
Human
Human Nature
" I loathe categorization. I cherish my independence, and I treasure chivalry. I live just fine with ambiguity, and I welcome a good quarrel about all things designed or grown - except for when men misnomer 'confident' with 'poised' and 'passionate' with 'feisty.' I work hard. "
Neri Oxman
Treasure
Good
Welcome
" The 3D-printing technology has been developing at a very rapid pace. "
Neri Oxman
Technology
Been
Pace
" Gender is more of a continuum than we are willing to admit when we hit the restroom. "
Neri Oxman
Willing
More
Admit
" Unlike a pressed or blown-glass part, which traditionally has smooth internal surface features, a printed part can have complex surface features on the inside as well as the outside. "
Neri Oxman
Inside
Complex
Well