Neri Oxman Quotes

Designs are increasingly winning competitions because they are literally green, and because somewhere they feature a small windmill.

Organic buildings are the strength and lightness of the spiders' spinning, buildings qualified by light, bred by native character to environment, married to the ground.

I don't like to talk about sustainability, because sometimes I see green buildings that don't appear any different from those in the past.

I'm very optimistic about the future. I'm just not optimistic about the skyscraper as a building typology that is suited for the future.

Design needs a new relationship with the world, one that is more focused on our planet's needs.

We have to base architecture on the environment.

Because I live in the countryside, I want a building which encourages me to have a fully formed relationship with the environment. It gives me an opportunity to not just be inside or outside, but in a range of contexts.

Design our world so that we have positive social and environmental side effects.

We can engineer a building and design a building with least reliance on active machinery to make it inhabitable.

Since the Beijing Olympics in 2008, our office has been discussing how we can make architecture more human and at one with nature. We need to ask ourselves, what legacy do we want to leave behind on humankind's urban culture?

In the United States alone, 450 billion square feet of glass facade is produced every year. What if we could take this chance to use the glass to harness solar energy and allow the architecture to respond to the light and heat of the sun, to create photosynthesis and generate solar energy?

So here I stand before you preaching organic architecture: declaring organic architecture to be the modern ideal.

Modern architecture does not mean the use of immature new materials; the main thing is to refine materials in a more human direction.

The Aga Khan Award for Architecture seeks to make a better place in physical terms. This means trying to bring values into environments, buildings, and contexts that improve the quality of life for future generations.

I believe buildings are alive, and when you want to make a change, you have to change in the same symphony.

Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic simplicity.

Design shouldn't have to take a backseat to sustainability and making things responsibly.

It's always interesting to see how we're able to, with craftsmanship... to bring these cool sustainable materials, cool metals, into the House of Marley and keeping that sustainable movement as well.

So many young designers are focused on styling rather than materials now. We have to change that.

The future of design is a future where anything material in the environment - whether it's wearables, cars, buildings - can be designed with this variation of properties and relationship with the environment that can take part in the natural ecology.

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.

I'm trying to create architecture as landscape. But I'm not copying nature.

Fundamentally, I am all about finding interesting and authentic ways to incorporate nature into most of my designs.

The beauty of the Stir It Up lies in its ecological balance. We're bringing high quality, earth-friendly materials together with innovative design. The result is powerful sound and a stylish look for the new turntable.

Chaoyang Park Plaza is about how to carry the traditional culture into a new format in modern architecture. Instead of building a boundary between the city and the park, I tried to design this building to emerge from the natural landscape.