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Neri Oxman is an architect and researcher currently based at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where she is a Presidential Fellow working towards her PhD in Design and Computation. Neri Oxman studied at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London (RIBA with Hons), the Technion Israel Institute of Technology (Hons), and the Hebrew University Medical School. She has practiced Architecture with Ram Karmi, OCEAN NORTH and had served as a Design-Technology Research Consultant for Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates (NY & London).
Recent exhibitions of Neri’s work include the Venice Architectural Biennale [2002, 2004], and the Beijing Biennale [2004, 2006]. Her own work has been recently exhibited in the “Emerging Talent Emerging Technologies” Exhibition at the Beijing Biennial 2006, World Art Museum.
Neri Oxman has taught design and computation workshops at the Emergent Technologies and Design Master's Program at the AA, the IT-Master's Programme at the Oslo School of Architecture, Rice and Columbia Universities. She has collaborated with Bentley Systems and the Smart Geometry Group and has given numerous workshops on Generative Components and other parametric software packages at various institutions including TU Delft, TU Vienna, Cambridge U.K, MIT, Columbia University, Harvard GSD, and KPF and Associates. Her work has been published in journals, magazines and books including AD (Emergence), AD (Techniques and Technologies in Morphogenetic Design), AD (Collective Intelligence in Design), Icon, AA Files, Building Design (BD Magazine), Demonstrating Digital Architecture (Birkhäuser Publishers), Archiprix International 2005 (010 Publishers), Morphoecologies (AA Publishers) and MIT’s Thresholds.
In 2005, she was the recipient of the FEIDAD Design Merit Award, an Archiprix Award, and the 2005-2007 America-Israel Cultural Foundation Award of Excellence. Neri has recently won the Kendall Square Media Design Competition for her project MITree sponsored by Lyme Properties and the Design Lab together with ECOMEDIA, a new collaborative practice, to design and build two large-scale structures at the square.
She is interested in advanced digital applications for architectural practice and their contribution to a design paradigm promoting generative design processes. Her current research attempts to establish new forms of design knowledge and new processes of practice at the interface of design, computer science, structural engineering, biology, and ecology. Her work attempts to integrate scientific principles of advances in modern biology, ecology, engineering and computation within generative processes of architectural and urban design. Neri is the principle of M A T E R I A L E C O L O G Y, a design research initiative based in Cambridge, MA.
"The foundation has supported my search for identity as an architect and designer. Its members have all inspired me to know (and take comfort with this knowledge) that there is commonly sufficient space about us to grow as creators and evolve as thinkers. But most importantly, the foundation has motivated me to give back to the community from which I came, committing to the values of novelty and invention."
Recent exhibitions of Neri’s work include the Venice Architectural Biennale [2002, 2004], and the Beijing Biennale [2004, 2006]. Her own work has been recently exhibited in the “Emerging Talent Emerging Technologies” Exhibition at the Beijing Biennial 2006, World Art Museum.
Neri Oxman has taught design and computation workshops at the Emergent Technologies and Design Master's Program at the AA, the IT-Master's Programme at the Oslo School of Architecture, Rice and Columbia Universities. She has collaborated with Bentley Systems and the Smart Geometry Group and has given numerous workshops on Generative Components and other parametric software packages at various institutions including TU Delft, TU Vienna, Cambridge U.K, MIT, Columbia University, Harvard GSD, and KPF and Associates. Her work has been published in journals, magazines and books including AD (Emergence), AD (Techniques and Technologies in Morphogenetic Design), AD (Collective Intelligence in Design), Icon, AA Files, Building Design (BD Magazine), Demonstrating Digital Architecture (Birkhäuser Publishers), Archiprix International 2005 (010 Publishers), Morphoecologies (AA Publishers) and MIT’s Thresholds.
In 2005, she was the recipient of the FEIDAD Design Merit Award, an Archiprix Award, and the 2005-2007 America-Israel Cultural Foundation Award of Excellence. Neri has recently won the Kendall Square Media Design Competition for her project MITree sponsored by Lyme Properties and the Design Lab together with ECOMEDIA, a new collaborative practice, to design and build two large-scale structures at the square.
She is interested in advanced digital applications for architectural practice and their contribution to a design paradigm promoting generative design processes. Her current research attempts to establish new forms of design knowledge and new processes of practice at the interface of design, computer science, structural engineering, biology, and ecology. Her work attempts to integrate scientific principles of advances in modern biology, ecology, engineering and computation within generative processes of architectural and urban design. Neri is the principle of M A T E R I A L E C O L O G Y, a design research initiative based in Cambridge, MA.
"The foundation has supported my search for identity as an architect and designer. Its members have all inspired me to know (and take comfort with this knowledge) that there is commonly sufficient space about us to grow as creators and evolve as thinkers. But most importantly, the foundation has motivated me to give back to the community from which I came, committing to the values of novelty and invention."