Tenured professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Media Lab, Dr. Neri Oxman's larger than life approach to architecture and design has continuously turned heads. Her impact in the world of architecture has led her to various breakthroughs in understanding the relationship and possibility between nature and the built environment. 

Coining the term, material ecology, Dr. Oxman and her motley crew at MIT has turned MIT's Media Lab into a fantastically eccentric playground. Through digital fabrication, synthetic design, and computational design Dr. Oxman and her team have developed amazingly beautiful and technically provocative multifunctional structures you would find in a science fiction novel. 

According to Dr. Oxman, "we treat design more like a gardening practice." The use of organic materials like ground up shrimp shells and silkworms are the natural stars in her uniquely expressive objects and structures. Her obsession with biological agents allows her to push the norm in adaptive architectural design. 

Her work spans well beyond the architectural space and can be found in the realms of fashion and music. Constant collaboration is nothing short of Dr. Oxman's design process. As the daughter of esteemed architects Robert and Rivka Oxman, the Israeli born architect has paved her own path in becoming a noticeably impactful force in the field of architecture and design.