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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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Sou Fujimoto
One of today’s best-known Japanese architects, Sou Fujimoto (1971) graduated in Architecture from the Faculty of Engineering, University of Tokyo in 1994. The majority of his work (initially projects for small spaces) is located in Japan, where he founded Sou Fujimoto Architects in 2000. He gained recognition some years later, when he won the Architectural Review award for emerging architecture 3 years in a row. Fujimoto lectures at the Universities of ....
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Ieoh Ming Pei
A major figure in twentieth-century architecture with his famous firm and the “greatest interpreter of International style” (Treccani), Ieoh Ming Pei (1917-2019) moved from China to the United States in 1935. After graduating from MIT (his thesis was awarded a Gold Medal by the American Institute of Architects), he became an American citizen in 1954. He later also studied at Harvard under the guidance of Walter Gropius. As the son of the ....
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Gordon Guillaumier
Maltese designer Gordon Guillaumier (1966) studied in Malta, England, Switzerland and Italy. In 1991, he graduated in Industrial Design from IED (European Institute of Design) in Milan, after which he obtained a master’s degree from the Domus Academy in Milan (with tutors Aldo Cibic and Andrea Branzi) and established several professional partnerships (Baleri Ass., Rodolfo Dordoni). “Gordon began his career collaborating with Rodolfo Dordoni’s ....