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Floornature is an international portal about architecture, design and design culture, investigating the contemporary with a special focus on sustainability. Its vocation, from the micro to the macro-scale of creativity, is to present new developments in architecture and design as they happen, with the specific intention of tracking emerging trends. The portal features special focus articles on materials for architecture and interviews with great masters of architecture and design.
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Francine Houben, Mecanoo
Francine Marie Jeanne Houben (1955) is a Dutch architect, creative director of Mecanoo Architecten and one of its founding partners along with H. Döll, E. van Egeraat, F. Houben, C. de Weijner and R. Steenhuis. The Mecanoo architecture firm, founded in Delft in 1984, stands out for its poetics “characterized by modernism, which is reinterpreted with a neo-avantgarde approach” (Treccani). Its name is inspired by the Meccano model construction ....
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Film-Obras De Arquitectura
The work of Carlos Fernández, Jorge Isaías, Gabriel Lanosa and Claudio Maslat, members of the Argentinian design studio Film-Obras De Arquitectura, is based on 4 fundamental design parameters. Firstly, simplicity as a process, austerity as a research method, sustainability as an objective for professional accountability and finally amenity to promote transformation of a place. Convinced that university is the place to investigate the emergence of new concepts ....
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Gordon Guillaumier
Maltese designer Gordon Guillaumier (1966) studied in Malta, England, Switzerland and Italy. In 1991, he graduated in Industrial Design from IED (European Institute of Design) in Milan, after which he obtained a master’s degree from the Domus Academy in Milan (with tutors Aldo Cibic and Andrea Branzi) and established several professional partnerships (Baleri Ass., Rodolfo Dordoni). “Gordon began his career collaborating with Rodolfo Dordoni’s ....