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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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Renzo Piano
One of the most renowned architects of the contemporary era, Renzo Piano was born in Genoa in 1937 into a family of builders. He obtained his secondary school diploma in classical studies and then earned a degree in Architecture from Milan Polytechnic in 1964. Following his university studies, he gained experience in Philadelphia and London, and the London experience in particular became a determining factor in his professional development, as Jean Prouvé assigned him the role of ....
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Richard Rogers
Born in Florence, Sir Richard Rogers (1933-2021) was one of the leading ‘starchitects’ with notable projects completed over 50 years, in particular as part of Team 4 with Norman Foster (1963 to 1967), and Renzo Piano (1971 to 1977) followed by the Richard Rogers Partnership. Since 2007 Rogers has worked with Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners (RSHP). Italian-born naturalized British, Rogers graduated in London in 1959, and in subsequent years launched his ....
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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 ....