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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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Francine Houben, Mecanoo
Francine Marie Jeanne Houben (1955) is a Dutch architect, creative director of Mecanoo Architecten and one of its founding partners along with H. Döll, E. van Egeraat, F. Houben, C. de Weijner and R. Steenhuis. The Mecanoo architecture firm, founded in Delft in 1984, stands out for its poetics “characterized by modernism, which is reinterpreted with a neo-avantgarde approach” (Treccani). Its name is inspired by the Meccano model construction ....
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Juan Domingo Santos
A leading exponent in the new generation of Spanish designers, Juan Domingo Santos (1961) is an architect and academic renowned for his work on the renovation and conversion of industrial and agricultural brownfield sites. Graduating from Seville University in 1986, Santos began his career the same year. The majority of his work from the early Nineties to 2010 is located in the area around Granada, the city of his birth. Since 2011 Santos has worked alongside Pritzker ....
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Michael Sorkin
American theorist and critic Michael Sorkin (1948-2020) studied architecture at Harvard and MIT. For a decade he wrote about architecture in the well-known New York weekly, “Village Voice”. At the same time he lectured at numerous universities, including Yale, Harvard, Columbia and Cornell. His prolific writing focuses primarily on social aspects and the political consequences of architecture and urban planning projects. Sorkin advanced ....