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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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Andrea Oliva
After graduating in Architecture from the Polytechnic University of Milan in 1998, Andrea Oliva (1972) began carrying out a detailed analysis of different spatial solutions, focusing especially on environmental sustainability issues and on converting areas and buildings to give them new functions, often with a social purpose. In 2000, he founded Studio Cittaarchitettura, which deals with design at different scales. He therefore designed public, residential and commercial ....
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Oscar Niemeyer
Designer of buildings for Brasilia’s main institutions, Oscar Niemeyer (1907-2012) is one of the key figures in both 20th century Latin American architecture and beyond. From 1930, he studied at the Escola Nacional de Belas Artes, Università Federale, Rio de Janeiro under the innovative Director Lucio Costa and continued his training by studying Colonial and South American Baroque architecture, and especially the writings of Le Corbusier, a true source of inspiration. ....
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Mário Martins
Mário Martins was born in Lagos, Algarve – Portugal in 1964, and graduated in 1988 from the Architecture Faculty of Lisbon Technical University. He worked for about one year in the architectural practice of Manuel Graça Dias and Egas José Vieira, and occasionally with the architect João Luís Carrilho da Graça. At the end of 1988 he decided to return to Lagos, setting up Oblíqua Arquitectos with the architect Vítor Lourenço, ....