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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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James Wines - SITE
American architect and artist James Wines’ (1932) professional career has long been linked to the multidisciplinary organization SITE (Sculpture in the Environment) which he founded in New York in 1970 alongside A. Sky, E. Sousa and M. Stone. A leading exponent of environmental design and organic architecture, he has been a sculptor since the late fifties. Graduating from Syracuse University in 1956, he has since managed architectural projects and research, held conferences ....
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Maurice Nio - NIO architecten
Dutch architect and artist Maurice Nio (1959) graduated in 1988 from the Faculty of Architecture in Delft. His graduation project, a villa for pop star Michael Jackson, is an example of his “hybrid approach” to the discipline: a mixture of mythology and pragmatism, and the simultaneous presence of cryptic aspects and clear design strategies. In the early 1990s, he founded the NOX Architects group, “an unconventional design agency, which used to ....
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Peter Zumthor
One of the key exponents of contemporary Swiss architecture and winner of the Pritzker Prize in 2009, Peter Zumthor (1943) studied interior architecture at the Pratt Institute, New York and Schule für Gestaltung in Basel. His early career included working as a carpenter specializing in furniture (trained by his cabinetmaker father) as well as working as a building consultant for the protection of historic monuments in the Swiss canton of Grigioni (1968-1979). The ....