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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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Marcos Novak
Multi-faceted artist, composer and architect, Marcos Novak (1957) was born in Caracas and studied architecture, specializing in programs for industrial design. A researcher at the University of Austin, Texas, since the 1980s he has devoted himself to the relationship between computer science and construction. Working in “non-traditional” architecture, his design thinking stems from exploring the spatial potential of new digital technologies, algorithmic compositions ....
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Oriol Bohigas - MBM Arquitectes
MBM design studio (an acronym of the partners’ surnames Martorell, Bohigas and Mackay) in Barcelona is a historic Spanish architectural and urban planning practice renowned for numerous projects in Barcelona, particularly the port area and masterplan for the 1992 Olympic village. Having completed their academic studies, the two founding partners, Josep Maria Martorell (1925-2017) and Oriol Bohigas (1925), began their professional partnership in 1951. The practice, ....
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Peter Eisenman
Originally from New Jersey, Peter Eisenman (1932) has always had a deeply-rooted cultural connection with European intellectuals, historians and artists, including Rowe, Tafuri, Chomsky and Derrida, who influenced his design concepts. His architectural and urban planning projects, and above all his long career in theory and education, position him “close to conceptual art” and to deconstructivism, with a strong experimental component and constant search for dialog ....