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Oxman
Oxman is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Neri Oxman (born 1976), American–Israeli designer and professor of art and architecture * Katja Oxman (born 1942), German-born American visual artist * Rivka Oxman (born 1950), Israeli architect, researcher, and professor * Stephen A. Oxman (born 1945), American government official * Zachary Oxman (born 1968), American contemporary sculptor and artist {{Surname Surnames of Jewish origin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neri Oxman
Neri Oxman ( he, נרי אוקסמן; born February 6, 1976) is an American–Israeli designer and professor at the MIT Media Lab, where she led the Mediated Matter research group. She is known for art and architecture that combine design, biology, computing, and materials engineering. Her work embodies environmental design and digital morphogenesis, with shapes and properties that are determined by their context. She coined the phrase "material ecology" to define her work, placing materials in context. Stylistic trademarks include brightly colored and textured surfaces with structure at many scales, and composite materials whose hardness, color, and shape vary over an object. The results are often in collaboration with or inspired by nature and biology. Many of Oxman's projects use new platforms and techniques for 3D printing and fabrication. They include co-fabrication systems for building hybrid structures with silkworms (''Silk Pavilion''), [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rivka Oxman
Rivka Oxman ( he, רבקה אוקסמן; born 1950) is an Israeli architect, researcher, and professor at the Technion Institute in Haifa. Her research interests are related to design and computation, including digital architecture and methods, and exploring their contribution to the emergence of new paradigms of architectural design and practice. Life and career Oxman graduated from the Hebrew Reali School in Haifa in 1966. She received graduate and undergraduate degrees from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, where she later became a professor and Vice Dean for Teaching at the Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning. She has been a Visiting Professor at Stanford University and Delft University of Technology and held research appointments at MIT and Berkeley. She has worked at the University of Sydney and Kaiserslautern University. She married fellow architect Robert Oxman, and they have two daughters, Neri and Keren. In 2006 she was elected as a Fellow of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katja Oxman
Katja Oxman (née Katharina Protassowsky; born 1942) is a German-born American visual artist and educator. She is known for her still life work with assembled objects, created in color etching with aquatint. Oxman taught art for at the American University; and lived in Silver Spring, Maryland and Amherst, Massachusetts, United States. Early life and education Katharina Protassowsky was born in 1942, in Munich, Germany. Her father Mischa Protassowsky was Russian and of the White movement, who fled during the Russian Civil War; and her mother Gretl Hell was German, however after their marriage her mother lost her citizenship. Her family moved to the United States in 1952. She started making artwork as a teenager. In 1966, she married artist Mark Oxman in England, and together they have children. Oxman attended the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) and graduated in 1965; she continued her studies for a year at Academy of Fine Arts, Munich in Germany; and attend ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zachary Oxman
Zachary Oxman (born 1968) is a contemporary sculptor and artist who creates sculptures, architectural pieces, and installations using varying types of media. Oxman uses the lost-wax casting technique for the majority of his work with several types of metal, including brass and stainless-steel. He was born in Reston, Virginia, in 1968 and currently lives and works in Maryland. Early life and education Oxman was born in Reston, Virginia in 1968. His father, an architect, and his mother, an accomplished artist in several mediums, were some of his biggest influences in starting his career as an artist. His mother, Laney Oxman, says he exhibited talented from a very early age. His second biggest influence was when he studied sculptures of the Baroque period while traveling in Florence, Italy. In addition to his independent studies in Italy in 1988, Oxman studied at the Corcoran School of Art in Washington, DC, and went on to receive his Bachelor of Fine Arts in sculpture from C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephen A
Stephen Anthony Smith (born ) is an American sports television personality, sports radio host, and sports journalist. He is a commentator on ESPN's ''First Take'', where he appears with Molly Qerim. He also makes frequent appearances as an NBA analyst on '' SportsCenter''. Smith also is an NBA analyst for ESPN on ''NBA Countdown'' and NBA broadcasts on ESPN. He also hosted ''The Stephen A. Smith Show'' on ESPN Radio. Smith is a featured columnist for ESPNNY.com, ESPN.com, and ''The Philadelphia Inquirer''. Early life and education Stephen Anthony Smith was born in the Bronx, a borough of New York City. He was raised in the Hollis section of Queens. Smith is the fifth of six children. He has four older sisters and had a younger brother, Basil, who died in a car accident in 1992. He also has a half-brother on his father's side. Smith's parents were originally from Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands. His father managed a hardware store. Smith's maternal grandmother was white, the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
