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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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Emre Arolat Architects
Turkish architect, Emre Arolat (1963) graduated from Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University in 1986. Having accumulated significant experience at Metcalf and Associates Architectural Office in Washington D.C. (1986-1987), he became a partner at Arolat Architects design studio, managed by his parents Neşet e Şaziment Arolat since 1961. In 2004, he founded his own design studio, Emre Arolat Architects (EAA) alongside Gonca Paşolar, drawing on his experience working in his ....
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Ricardo Bofill - RBTA
The son of an architect, Ricardo Bofill (1939) was born in Barcelona and graduated from the School of Architecture, University of Barcelona and School of Geneva. Considered one of the greatest representatives of post-modernist design, for almost 60 years Bofill has been at the forefront of numerous international projects with the Taller de Arquitectura (RBTA), founded by him in 1963. The RBTA studio, whose headquarters is a former cement plant called “La Fabrica”, ....
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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 ....