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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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Marcos Novak
Multi-faceted artist, composer and architect, Marcos Novak (1957) was born in Caracas and studied architecture, specializing in programs for industrial design. A researcher at the University of Austin, Texas, since the 1980s he has devoted himself to the relationship between computer science and construction. Working in “non-traditional” architecture, his design thinking stems from exploring the spatial potential of new digital technologies, algorithmic compositions ....
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Yoshichika Takagi
The young Japanese architect Yoshichika Takagi (1975) was born in Sapporo on the island of Hokkaido and graduated from Hokkai Gakuen University in 1998. He joined the "School of Architecture” architectural association in 2001. After working at the Norisada Maeda Atelier for 4 years, he founded his own architectural practice in 2012. He currently teaches at Hokkai Gakuen University. In his personal career, Takagi has so far mainly worked on residential architecture and ....
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Andrea Maffei Architects
After graduating in Florence, the career of Andrea Maffei (born in Modena in 1968) began with Massimo Carmassi in Pisa and continued in Tokyo, from 1997 to 2004, at the studio of Arata Isozaki. He was initially part of the team for the Ceramic Museum in Gifu (Japan) and then was head of the project for the competition to design the New Exit of the Uffizi Gallery. With its aim of expanding the exhibition space, improving the user experience and creating a new exit from the gallery, the ....