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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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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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Atelier Deshaus
Founded in Shanghai in 2001 and working throughout China, Atelier Deshaus currently comprises partners Liu Yichun and Chen Yifen both of whom graduated from the Faculty of Architecture, Tongju University. The designers began by creating mainly public buildings and housing which brought them international recognition and numerous awards such as Business Weeks/Architectural Record China Awards, WA Chinese Architecture Awards and FAR EAST Architecture Awards. The design ....