Neri Oxman: On Designing Form

Architect Neri Oxman is the founder of MATERIALECOLOGY, an interdisciplinary design initiative expanding the boundaries of computational form-generation and material engineering. Named one of Fast Company's "100 Most Creative People in Business," Oxman investigates the material and performance of nature in an effort to define form itself.

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[3680269]

She is so hot. At some point, I am expecting a small Korean boy to rip off his mask and yell "gotcha, its only a hologram! Welcome to MIT Sucka!"

[G4700]

I'm sure Neri would disagree with you. ALL art (including design) is abstract. The realist/abstract distinction in visual art is useful, but not precise. The most “realistic” painting is abstracted (taken from) the thing represented, & the extent of representation is always a matter of degree. Non-representational art is new to our civilization and remains controversial. It is less a matter of discarding realism than a condition of change caused by intrinsic demands of modernist innovation.

[nataliese1]

She is hot, I agree :)

[zivley]

right, what about the desert rolling spider?

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Nature didn't invent the wheel, but those who invented it based themselves on nature

[Nathaniel Skinner]

topology optimization

[personanondata]

Nature designs? Is nature a being with intelligence? So you are religious, Neri?

[Rod Read]

Awesome Neri. I'm helping design a similar shift in wind energy, using the wind energy to fly generation structures instead of building. Lattice works and 3d cutting / printing are looking like a key. The talk was great thanks... do you use grasshopper / Galapagos / rhino for constraint definition and material resolution?

[Emmanuel Owuraku Otchere-Darko]

Complete bionic! Great passion to digital design...she's made such an impressive presentation!

[ikon3d]

i love it! really deep sense of structure and appreciation of design.

[adverseadding60]

her and rachel armstrong are two of the hottest architects because of their minds of course. ;)

[Gary Chong]

close enough