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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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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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Alejandro Aravena - ELEMENTAL
Among the emerging figures in the world of contemporary architecture is Alejandro Aravena (1967). Born in Santiago de Chile, he graduated from Pontificia Cilena University in 1992 and continued his studies in Italy at IUAV (University of Architecture, Venice). Following the opening of his own design studio in 1994, in 2001 he founded ELEMENTAL S.A. in Santiago, where he has been Executive Director since 2006. With ELEMENTAL (which also comprises architects Gonzalo Arteaga, Juan ....
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Isolarchitetti
Established in 2000, the Turin architecture practice Isolarchitetti was founded by Oreglia d'Isola (1928) with his son Saverio (1972). Currently it also comprises Flavio Bruna, Michele Battaggia, Andrea Bondonio and Stefano Peyretti. Isolarchitetti “draws on the legacy of the Gabetti & Isola design studio, which from 1950 to 2000 was one of the most fruitful professional partnerships in modern, contemporary architecture”, with internationally acclaimed ....