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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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Piero Lissoni, Lissoni Associati Milan
Architect and designer Piero Lissoni (1956) graduated in Architecture from the Polytechnic University of Milan. In 1986, he founded the firm Lissoni Associati (together with Nicoletta Canesi), a multidisciplinary company that now has offices in Milan and New York and develops projects worldwide in the fields of architecture, product design, graphics and visual communication, with the support of other companies that are part of the group, including Graphx (founded in 1996). ....
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Dominique Coulon associés
Renowned for the large number of school buildings and cultural facilities completed in France, Dominique Coulon (1961) graduated in 1989 with the lecturer and architect Henri Ciriani (1936) and founded his own Practice later that year. Subsequently, he received a special award in the international competition for the Japanese Culture House, Paris (1990), and won the “Villa Medicis hors les murs” (1991) which enabled him to benefit from extensive study trips in Europe, the USA ....
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Michael Sorkin
American theorist and critic Michael Sorkin (1948-2020) studied architecture at Harvard and MIT. For a decade he wrote about architecture in the well-known New York weekly, “Village Voice”. At the same time he lectured at numerous universities, including Yale, Harvard, Columbia and Cornell. His prolific writing focuses primarily on social aspects and the political consequences of architecture and urban planning projects. Sorkin advanced ....