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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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Aldo Rossi
Aldo Rossi (1931-1997) graduated from Politecnico di Milano in his native city of Milan in 1959 and immediately began pursuing an intense theoretical and teaching career, working with historic magazines such as Casabella - Continuità (1955 to 1964), Società and Il Contemporaneo and serving as editor-in-chief of Marsilio’s Polis series. In his youth he added numerous trips abroad to his cultural ....
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Claudio Silvestrin
Born in Zurich, Claudio Silvestrin (1954) is one of the best-known Italian architects and designers today, and a "meticulous designer of elegant spaces, particularly stores and manufacturing". (Domus) Italian, naturalized British, as a student of A.G. Fronzoni (1923-2002) and his design concepts, he studied initially in Milan, and then continued his studies at the Architectural Association, London. His early professional career began in the British capital firstly with ....
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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 ....