Neri Oxman
new paradigm: “the World as Machine.” Material Ecology pioneer Neri Oxman proposes a model for the Digital Age: “the World as Organism.” This view aims to impart “a living quality” to the built environment, she explains. The resulting creations could be buildings made of a single surface material that can integrate multiple functions—“not unlike the human skin, which serves at once as both a barrier and a filter,” she says. But it is also the process of design that thrills and inspires the 42-year-old architect and artist, who studied
