“And honestly, the thing is... there is something special about those monuments. Despite how we might apply our own individual thoughts and interpretations to them... Even if they wrote books filled with precise explanations about how and why Gaudi did things the way he did... there would still be something pure in his work that will never change. Something no scholar could ever explain. Something those crimes could not erase. Something like... a spirit. Like a dream buried in time. A life.” ArchitectureArchitectAestheticAestheticsArchitectsArchitect QuotesArchitecturalArchitectural Creation Book:The Ghost Of Gaudi Source: The Ghost Of Gaudi
“For the first time in architectural history, we're approaching the resolution and complexity of the natural world by creating new technologies that will ultimately enable us to design a beam as if it were a branch or an HVAC and waste removal system as if it were a photosynthetic GI tract engineered to convert carbon into biofuel.” ArchitecturePermaculture EconomyPermaculture EconomicsMaterial EcologyPermaculture BusinessAdditive ManufacturingArchitect QuotesMaterials Engineering Author:Neri Oxman
“Optically transparent, structurally sound and chemically inert, glass is a fabulous building material and has been for over four thousand years. Still, the production and use of hundreds of billions of glass facad components every year in the US alone begs the question; What if we can utilize this immense surface area for harvesting solar energy in efficient and effective ways? The 3D Printing of optically transparent glass points toward such a possible future.” ArchitecturePermaculture EconomyPermaculture EconomicsMaterial EcologyAdditive ManufacturingArchitect Quotes Author:Neri Oxman
“Imagine that nature is the single most important client in the architectural practice.” NatureBusinessArchitecturePermaculture EconomyPermaculture EconomicsMaterial EcologyArchitect Quotes Author:Neri Oxman
“When we're able to communicate in nature's language; when we're able to transcend the view that nature is a boundless entity; even transcending the building as the kernel of the architectural project; when we invite scientific inquiry and technological innovation, fusing atoms with bits and bits with genes - only then will the art of building enable new forms of interaction between humans and their environment.” ArchitectureArchitectPermaculture EconomyPermaculturePermaculture EconomicsPermaculture BusinessPermaculture SocietyArchitect Quotes Author:Neri Oxman
“For centuries architects have been taught to sketch, model and build in three static dimensions - x, y and z. But the natural world offers contexts that are much more dimensionally complex and dynamic.” ArchitectureArchitectPermaculture EconomyPermaculture EconomicsMaterial EcologyPermaculture BusinessArchitect QuotesMaterials Engineering Author:Neri Oxman
“To speak in nature's language, we must prioritize bio-based structural materials; biopolymers. Biopolymers are natural polymers produced by the cells of living organisms.” ArchitecturePermaculture EconomyPermaculture EconomicsMaterial EcologyArchitect QuotesBiopolymers Author:Neri Oxman
“Through life and programmed decomposition - shelter becomes organism, and organism becomes shelter as it holds the potential to promote the health of natural resource cycles by such means as promoting soil micro-organisms and providing nutrients for growing buildings.” ArchitecturePermaculture EconomicsMaterial EcologyPermaculture BusinessArchitect Quotes Author:Neri Oxman
“Let's architect a future of synergy between the natural and the built environment.” BusinessArchitectureArchitectMaterial EcologyArchitect Quotes Author:Neri Oxman
“A skyscraper is not a tree - not yet.” BusinessArchitectureArchitectMaterial EcologyArchitect QuotesMaterials Engineering Author:Neri Oxman