NEWS
Architecture and materials
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.
Blog
Podcast
PROJECTS
Biographies
Architect
Francine Houben, Mecanoo
Francine Marie Jeanne Houben (1955) is a Dutch architect, creative director of Mecanoo Architecten and one of its founding partners along with H. Döll, E. van Egeraat, F. Houben, C. de Weijner and R. Steenhuis. The Mecanoo architecture firm, founded in Delft in 1984, stands out for its poetics “characterized by modernism, which is reinterpreted with a neo-avantgarde approach” (Treccani). Its name is inspired by the Meccano model construction ....
Architect
Alberto Apostoli
In 1997 Alberto and his brother Francesco opened Studio Apostoli & Associati offering the multi-disciplinary professional profile for which his education qualifies him. In 2006 he held his first solo show in the European Parliament Building in Brussels, entitled "Contamination between communication and design in architecture", attracting attention in the press all over Europe. In 2006 he also opened a studio in Guangzhou, and in 2007 he opened an agency in Casablanca. ....
Architect
Mathias Klotz
Chilean architect , Mathias Klotz (Viña del Mar, 1965) is one of the major exponents of Modernist movement. After graduating from the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile in 1990, he worked on the design and construction of numerous houses, mainly in Chile (Klotz, Muller, Ugarte), in particular in Santiago. His first work outside Latin America was the Valtocado House in Mijas, Spain in 2012. His work is firmly rooted in modern architecture and during his ....