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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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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 ....
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JDS Architects - Julien De Smedt
Born in Brussels to French art enthusiast Jacques Léobold and Belgian artist Claude De Smedt, Julien De Smedt attended schools in Brussels, Paris and Los Angeles, before graduating from the Bartlett School of Architecture, London (source: We Can Change the Weather, Vubpress 2010). De Smedt worked firstly with OMA in Rotterdam, then in 2001 co-founded and became director of PLOT architectural practice in Copenhagen, alongside Bjarke Ingels. The PLOT design ....