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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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Paolo Soleri
The long career of Paolo Soleri (1919-2013) spanned more than 60 years working in Italy and the United States in the fields of architecture, urban planning, sculpture and ceramics. A designer and theoretician, Soleri authored numerous monographs and essays. After graduating from Politecnico di Torino, the Polytechnic Institute in Turin, in 1946, Soleri moved to the US, where he worked in Taliesin West, one of Frank Lloyd Wright’s studios. When he returned to ....
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Andreas Kipar
After graduating from Essen and the Politecnico di Milano, Andreas Kipar (1960) began his eminent professional career in planning and landscape design. In 1990 alongside Giovanni Sala, he co-founded LAND (Landscape Architecture Nature Development) in Milan. In addition to their Italian headquarters, LAND has offices in Lugano, Switzerland and Düsseldorf, Germany. LAND’s urban redevelopment projects for parks, natural areas and agri-landscape systems, ....
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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 ....