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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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Leonardo, Salvatore Re
Leonardo Srl design studio was founded in Pisa in 2001 by Salvatore Re, continuing his professional career as an architect which began in 1983. The Leonardo Practice works in a variety of disciplines capitalizing on technological research put in place following partnerships with prestigious research institutions. Particular attention is centered on the bioclimatic study of buildings combined with detailed research into materials. Environmental and economic sustainability ....
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Tatiana Bilbao
Born in Mexico City, in recent years Tatiana Bilbao (1972) has become noted worldwide as one of the most thought-provoking Mexican architects, not only due to her designs but also her efforts to promote the discipline as a means of social and environmental improvement. Her long-held interest in architecture and urban planning is shared with many members of her family. “One of her grandparents was Minister for Urban Development in the Spanish government prior to Francisco Franco ....
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Peter Zumthor
One of the key exponents of contemporary Swiss architecture and winner of the Pritzker Prize in 2009, Peter Zumthor (1943) studied interior architecture at the Pratt Institute, New York and Schule für Gestaltung in Basel. His early career included working as a carpenter specializing in furniture (trained by his cabinetmaker father) as well as working as a building consultant for the protection of historic monuments in the Swiss canton of Grigioni (1968-1979). The ....