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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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Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Unrivalled master of the Modernist movement, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886-1969) worked in both Europe and the USA (after 1937), building numerous projects characterised by “minimalist choices, refined details of construction and simple structures” (Di Marco), elements which were to become the hallmarks of his constructions. After studying Applied Arts and apprenticeships in Aachen, he worked in the studio of Peter Behrens as assistant to Walter ....
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Humberto Hermeto
Founded in 1996, the office has worked on several projects in different scales. The office try to work with a wide range of collaborators to enhance the dialogue and consequently the results. Located in Belo Horizonte, it has projects in different brazilian states. Main projects 1997 – Praça da Bandeira (Bandeira´s Square) – National Competition – 1st prize (Belo Horizonte) 2001 – COHAB ....
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Jo Crepain, Crepain Binst Architecture
Jo Crepain began his career 40 years ago. He designed his first project in 1973, while still a student: a house that won Belgium’s most prestigious architecture award. The same year he graduated from Henry van de Velde Institute in Antwerp and started working as an architect, co-founding the studio SILO with E. Hoecks, J. Mooens, S. Stals and G. Van Looveren. At the same time he continued his studies in urban planning, a discipline that would become particularly important in his ....