What does it mean to build, house, inform and inspire sustainable ways of living in the 21st century? American Israeli architect and founder of the New York-based practice, OXMAN, Neri Oxman questions the materials, tools and methods of architecture as we know it today. In the exclusive exhibition Nature × Humanity: Oxman Architects, on view at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) from February 19-May 15, 2022, nearly 40 profound artworks and installations rethink how we build and design with one essential objective: to transition from a focus on human material wealth to a focus on environmental health.
"While human material wealth stakes claim to land and resources, environmental health restores and advances natural balance to mutually benefit all. OXMAN's radical perspective lies in its ability to envision an alternative architectural legacy upending a human-centered built environment to reprioritize nature," said Jennifer Dunlop Fletcher, SFMOMA's Helen Hilton Raiser Curator of Architecture and Design. "By evoking questions rather than posing solutions, Nature × Humanity: Oxman Architects offers visitors opportunities for bold imagination, robust discussion and informed action."
Bringing together knowledge, principles and tools from four disciplines--art, architecture and design, engineering and science--the exhibition spans Oxman's career from 2007 to the present. With never-before-seen large-scale projects such as the Gemini Cinema and Biodiversity Pavilion models, the rarely seen Aguahoja pavilions and Vespers masks and the ongoing urban planning project The Future of Mannahatta, among others, the presentation celebrates Oxman's pioneering approach, including interdisciplinary collaborations that resonate with nature, not against it, and inspires new ways of thinking about the world around us.
Image Credit: Neri Oxman and The Mediated Matter Group, Aguahoja II prototype, 2019; © Massachusetts Institute of Technology; photo: The Mediated Matter Group
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"While human material wealth stakes claim to land and resources, environmental health restores and advances natural balance to mutually benefit all. OXMAN's radical perspective lies in its ability to envision an alternative architectural legacy upending a human-centered built environment to reprioritize nature," said Jennifer Dunlop Fletcher, SFMOMA's Helen Hilton Raiser Curator of Architecture and Design. "By evoking questions rather than posing solutions, Nature × Humanity: Oxman Architects offers visitors opportunities for bold imagination, robust discussion and informed action."
Bringing together knowledge, principles and tools from four disciplines--art, architecture and design, engineering and science--the exhibition spans Oxman's career from 2007 to the present. With never-before-seen large-scale projects such as the Gemini Cinema and Biodiversity Pavilion models, the rarely seen Aguahoja pavilions and Vespers masks and the ongoing urban planning project The Future of Mannahatta, among others, the presentation celebrates Oxman's pioneering approach, including interdisciplinary collaborations that resonate with nature, not against it, and inspires new ways of thinking about the world around us.
Image Credit: Neri Oxman and The Mediated Matter Group, Aguahoja II prototype, 2019; © Massachusetts Institute of Technology; photo: The Mediated Matter Group
What does it mean to build, house, inform and inspire sustainable ways of living in the 21st century? American Israeli architect and founder of the New York-based practice, OXMAN, Neri Oxman questions the materials, tools and methods of architecture as we know it today. In the exclusive exhibition Nature × Humanity: Oxman Architects, on view at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) from February 19-May 15, 2022, nearly 40 profound artworks and installations rethink how we build and design with one essential objective: to transition from a focus on human material wealth to a focus on environmental health.
"While human material wealth stakes claim to land and resources, environmental health restores and advances natural balance to mutually benefit all. OXMAN's radical perspective lies in its ability to envision an alternative architectural legacy upending a human-centered built environment to reprioritize nature," said Jennifer Dunlop Fletcher, SFMOMA's Helen Hilton Raiser Curator of Architecture and Design. "By evoking questions rather than posing solutions, Nature × Humanity: Oxman Architects offers visitors opportunities for bold imagination, robust discussion and informed action."
Bringing together knowledge, principles and tools from four disciplines--art, architecture and design, engineering and science--the exhibition spans Oxman's career from 2007 to the present. With never-before-seen large-scale projects such as the Gemini Cinema and Biodiversity Pavilion models, the rarely seen Aguahoja pavilions and Vespers masks and the ongoing urban planning project The Future of Mannahatta, among others, the presentation celebrates Oxman's pioneering approach, including interdisciplinary collaborations that resonate with nature, not against it, and inspires new ways of thinking about the world around us.
Image Credit: Neri Oxman and The Mediated Matter Group, Aguahoja II prototype, 2019; © Massachusetts Institute of Technology; photo: The Mediated Matter Group
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"While human material wealth stakes claim to land and resources, environmental health restores and advances natural balance to mutually benefit all. OXMAN's radical perspective lies in its ability to envision an alternative architectural legacy upending a human-centered built environment to reprioritize nature," said Jennifer Dunlop Fletcher, SFMOMA's Helen Hilton Raiser Curator of Architecture and Design. "By evoking questions rather than posing solutions, Nature × Humanity: Oxman Architects offers visitors opportunities for bold imagination, robust discussion and informed action."
Bringing together knowledge, principles and tools from four disciplines--art, architecture and design, engineering and science--the exhibition spans Oxman's career from 2007 to the present. With never-before-seen large-scale projects such as the Gemini Cinema and Biodiversity Pavilion models, the rarely seen Aguahoja pavilions and Vespers masks and the ongoing urban planning project The Future of Mannahatta, among others, the presentation celebrates Oxman's pioneering approach, including interdisciplinary collaborations that resonate with nature, not against it, and inspires new ways of thinking about the world around us.
Image Credit: Neri Oxman and The Mediated Matter Group, Aguahoja II prototype, 2019; © Massachusetts Institute of Technology; photo: The Mediated Matter Group
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