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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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Coop Himmelb(l)au
Established in 1968, the Coop Himmelb(l)au group of architects is internationally renowned for its experimental theories on architecture. The design studio was founded by Wolf Dieter Prix, Helmut Swiczinsky and Rainer Michael Holzer. Prix is currently the practice’s Design Principal and CEO. Holzer and Swiczinsky remained with the practice until 1971 and 2001 respectively. Born in Vienna in 1942, Wolf D. Prix studied architecture at Vienna University of Technology, ....
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Carlos Castanheira
Born in Lisbon, Carlos Castanheira (1957) is part of a generation of Portuguese architects considered the professional progeny of Alvaro Siza, with whom Castanheira worked for fourteen years and with whom he has collaborated on several occasions, including in recent years. Graduating in architecture from the School of Fine Arts, Porto (1981), Castanheira lived in Amsterdam for almost the whole of the Eighties. He launched his professional career whilst continuing to study at the ....
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Thom Mayne and Morphosis
American architect and academic, Thom Mayne (1944) was born in Connecticut but raised firstly in Indiana and later in California, relocating due to his mother’s series of jobs. Graduating in architecture from the University of Southern California in 1968, he completed his master’s degree at Harvard ten years later. Mayne is a founding member of SCI-Arc (Southern California Institute of Architecture). SCI-Arc group (now a private university in Los Angeles with ....