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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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Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Unrivalled master of the Modernist movement, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886-1969) worked in both Europe and the USA (after 1937), building numerous projects characterised by “minimalist choices, refined details of construction and simple structures” (Di Marco), elements which were to become the hallmarks of his constructions. After studying Applied Arts and apprenticeships in Aachen, he worked in the studio of Peter Behrens as assistant to Walter ....
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Carlos Ferrater
A native of Barcelona, Carlos Ferrater (1944) has worked mainly in Spain. Beginning his career in the early Seventies, he founded the Office of Architecture in Barcelona (OAB) in 2006, alongside Lucía Ferrater, Borja Ferrater and Xavier Martí (respectively children and spouse). Since 1971 and throughout his long career Ferrater has combined his professional career with academia. His body of work reveals a highly personal trajectory and construction ....
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SADAR + VUGA
Jurij Sadar graduated from the Faculty of Architecture, Ljubljana (1987) and worked as an independent architect until 1993. He has enjoyed a long teaching career at university faculties and schools of architecture, alongside international conferences and symposiums (Tokyo, Melbourne, Peking, Los Angeles and Monaco). After graduating in architecture in Ljubljana, Boštjan Vuga studied at the AA School of Architecture, London. Associate professor of architecture at the Faculty of ....