Best quotes by Neri Oxman on Nature

Checkout quotes by Neri Oxman on Nature

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