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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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Giuseppe Tortato
(…) buildings born out of local culture and history, combining technology with the natural environment, boldly integrating architectural elements with landscape (…) Born in Venice in 1967, Giuseppe Tortato graduated from Politecnico di Milano before moving to Amherst, Massachusetts, where he worked with a pupil of Paolo Soleri on public and private buildings constructed according to the principles of bioclimatic architecture. ....
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Daniel Libeskind
Born in Łódź, Poland, Daniel Libeskind (1946, naturalised US citizen since 1965) is widely acknowledged as a key figure in deconstructivist architecture. He studied a number of disciplines (music, painting, mathematics) in Israel and in the USA, graduating from Cooper Union in New York with a degree in architecture in 1970. His “constant, destructive criticism of the contemporary architectural ....
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Arata Isozaki
An architect, urban planner and architectural theorist, Arata Isozaki (1931) is regarded as one of the masters of contemporary Japanese architecture. Born in Ōita, on the island of Kyushu in Japan, Isozaki was a teenager at the time Hiroshima and Nagasaki were bombed. The memory of that experience helped him to develop his theory that buildings are transitory and maintain a bond with man. In this respect, he stated: “when I was old enough to begin an ....