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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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GRAFT
Founded in Los Angeles in 1998, the founding partners of the international architecture practice GRAFT are Lars Krückeberg, Thomas Willemeit and Wolfram Putz. In 2018 they were joined as partners by architects Sven Fuchs, Dennis Hawner and Georg Schmidthals. The practice also opened offices in Berlin (2001) and Beijing (2004). Due to the different meanings of its name (botanical graft or, in the field of medicine, transplant), GRAFT says it is a hybrid ....
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Grafton Architects
Founded in 1978 by Yvonne Farrell (1951) and Shelley McNamara (1952), graduates of UCD, University College Dublin, Grafton Architects is named after the well-known street in the Irish capital. Initially, the majority of the Practice's work was in Dublin, mainly on school or university buildings, public and residential projects. Teaching has also been an important part of the two architects’ careers. Both have lectured at University College Dublin (1977-2009) and ....
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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 ....