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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 Cibic
A designer and scholar active since the late 1970s, Aldo Cibic (1955) was initially self-taught. His career took off in 1980 when he moved to Milan to join Ettore Sottsass’s studio, and soon became one of the partners. In 1981, he was one of the founding members of the Memphis group, the influential movement that questioned Modernism and re-established design, which left a mark at the time and on the subsequent evolution of design and architecture. Cibic was part of Memphis until ....
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UN Studio Ben Van Berkel & Caroline Bos
Founded in 1988 by Ben van Berkel and Caroline Bos, UNStudio is a Dutch architectural practice specialising in urban development, infrastructure and masterplan projects. Its central offices are in Amsterdam and Shanghai. This second office (UNStudio Asia) was opened in 2009 and was initially opened to work on the design of the famous Raffles City in Hangzhou. In 25 years of experience working all over the world, the studio has constantly expanded its scope to offer full-service ....
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Peter L. Wilson
Julia Bolles was born in 1948 in Münster, Germany, and graduated from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in 1976. She then completed her studies at the Architectural Association School of Architecture - AA. From 1996 to 2014, she was a professor at the Münster School of Architecture. A member of the Deutsche Akademie für Städtebau und Landesplanung (DASL) and of the Design Council of Salzburg, she has been dean of the Münster School of Architecture since 2008 ....