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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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Aldo Rossi
Aldo Rossi (1931-1997) graduated from Politecnico di Milano in his native city of Milan in 1959 and immediately began pursuing an intense theoretical and teaching career, working with historic magazines such as Casabella - Continuità (1955 to 1964), Società and Il Contemporaneo and serving as editor-in-chief of Marsilio’s Polis series. In his youth he added numerous trips abroad to his cultural ....
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Michael Sorkin
American theorist and critic Michael Sorkin (1948-2020) studied architecture at Harvard and MIT. For a decade he wrote about architecture in the well-known New York weekly, “Village Voice”. At the same time he lectured at numerous universities, including Yale, Harvard, Columbia and Cornell. His prolific writing focuses primarily on social aspects and the political consequences of architecture and urban planning projects. Sorkin advanced ....
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Andrea Maffei Architects
After graduating in Florence, the career of Andrea Maffei (born in Modena in 1968) began with Massimo Carmassi in Pisa and continued in Tokyo, from 1997 to 2004, at the studio of Arata Isozaki. He was initially part of the team for the Ceramic Museum in Gifu (Japan) and then was head of the project for the competition to design the New Exit of the Uffizi Gallery. With its aim of expanding the exhibition space, improving the user experience and creating a new exit from the gallery, the ....