American - Architect | 1976 -
Look at spiders. They use about eight different properties of silk for different functions. The spider is like a multimaterial 3D printer.
Neri Oxman
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One cannot separate the spider web's form from the way in which it originated.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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In nature, there is no separation between design, engineering, and fabrication; the bone does it all.
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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!
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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.
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If you believe in Cinderella, and if you can suspend your disbelief at midnight, then you can believe in the interdisciplinary midnight, the 'in-betweens,' and become fortunately entangled, moving from art to science.
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It is only through hard work and awareness that we can truly own our identity.
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To wear a beautiful new garment is like wearing a new idea, and I see them as the same thing. Opening my closet is a form of meditation. I pick whatever I feel is right for the day.
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