Contemporary (21st century) · Computational Design, Material Ecology, Architecture
Neri Oxman is an Israeli-American designer, architect, and professor at the MIT Media Lab, where she founded and directs the Mediated Matter research group. Her work pioneers the field of Material Ecology, an interdisciplinary approach that integrates computational design, digital fabrication, materials science, and synthetic biology to create structures and objects that are informed by, and in harmony with, the natural environment. She is renowned for projects that blur the boundaries between the grown and the built, proposing a new paradigm for design and construction.