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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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Piero Lissoni, Lissoni Associati Milan
Architect and designer Piero Lissoni (1956) graduated in Architecture from the Polytechnic University of Milan. In 1986, he founded the firm Lissoni Associati (together with Nicoletta Canesi), a multidisciplinary company that now has offices in Milan and New York and develops projects worldwide in the fields of architecture, product design, graphics and visual communication, with the support of other companies that are part of the group, including Graphx (founded in 1996). ....
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Gae Aulenti
World-renowned architect and designer Gaetana “Gae” Aulenti (1927-2012) graduated with a degree in architecture in Milano in 1954. A ten-year collaboration with the historic magazine Casabella-Continuità (1955-1965) turned out to be of key importance in her development. Her early constructions (home with stables in San Siro, home in Brianza) and furniture designs (Sgarsul rocking chair, reinterpretation of the 1862 Thonet armchair) ....
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Arata Isozaki
An architect, urban planner and architectural theorist, Arata Isozaki (1931) is regarded as one of the masters of contemporary Japanese architecture. Born in Ōita, on the island of Kyushu in Japan, Isozaki was a teenager at the time Hiroshima and Nagasaki were bombed. The memory of that experience helped him to develop his theory that buildings are transitory and maintain a bond with man. In this respect, he stated: “when I was old enough to begin an ....