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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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Boris Podrecca
Boris Podrecca (1940) was born in Belgrade and studied architecture and figurative art in Vienna, where he opened his practice in 1980. His teaching career continued throughout the eighties, lecturing at several universities (Lausanne, Paris, Philadelphia, London, Cambridge and Stuttgart). From the early to mid-nineties he headed the International Architecture Seminar in Vienna. Podrecca also worked on numerous themed exhibitions, which clearly reveal his analysis ....
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Kristin Jarmund
Norwegian architect and interior designer Kristin Jarmund (1954) is best known for her works in her homeland, particularly in her native city of Oslo. In the Norwegian capital, Jarmund is one of the most important architects of the last several decades, sought after by both private clients and national institutions, thanks to projects created for various types buildings: hotels, schools, offices, cafés and restaurants, as well as the famous metro station of Nydalen (2003), which ....
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5+1AA Alfonso Femia Gianluca Peluffo
Architecture as a mechanism of knowledge underlies the design practice of studio 5+1AA, founded in Genoa by Alfonso Femia and Gianluca Peluffo. Architecture as body and enigma, that is, as pragmatism and sensuality, as realism and emotion, dialogues with urban planning with the shared intent of designing territory. The studio’s best known projects include Savona University Campus, the offices of the Ministry of the Interior in Rome, the art and cultural centre known as Palazzo del ....