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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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Film-Obras De Arquitectura
The work of Carlos Fernández, Jorge Isaías, Gabriel Lanosa and Claudio Maslat, members of the Argentinian design studio Film-Obras De Arquitectura, is based on 4 fundamental design parameters. Firstly, simplicity as a process, austerity as a research method, sustainability as an objective for professional accountability and finally amenity to promote transformation of a place. Convinced that university is the place to investigate the emergence of new concepts ....
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Frei Otto
The German architect Frei Otto (1925-2015) was raised in a family of sculptors, mastered the craft of stonecutting and took an interest in model building and gliding. A fighter pilot during the war, in 1945 he was taken captive in France. During his imprisonment, he supervised a construction and maintenance team. Between 1948 and 1952, he studied at the Technical University of Berlin. During a trip to the USA, he met Eero Sarinen and engineer Fred Severud who were setting up the ....
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Henning Larsen Architects
Henning Larsen Architects focuses on social responsibility and environmental sustainability. Since Henning Larsen founded his practice in1959 he has worked on projects of all kinds with the involvement of prominent personalities offering expertise in different areas, permitting innovation and progress in research. The starting point of his work has always been the state of the art, inspiring architectural visions in a variety of sectors. From private homes to school buildings, from ....