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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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Walter Gropius
A key figure in rationalist architecture, Walter Gropius (1883-1969) is numbered among the fathers of modern architecture for the historical and social impact of his projects built in Europe and the United States over more than 50 years. The upper class family in which he grew up brought him into contact with the world of architecture early in life, and he studied in Munich and Berlin and above all trained in the studio of Peter Behrens (1908-1910), who ....
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Alberto CAMPO BAEZA
Spanish architect Alberto Campo Baeza (1946) was born in Valladolid and grew up in Cádiz, following the movements of his father, a military surgeon. His passion for architecture developed at a young age, influenced by his architect grandfather. He graduated in 1971 from the Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura in Madrid, where he would subsequently become a tenured professor. His many years of teaching activity also include a number of prestigious ....