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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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Ieoh Ming Pei
A major figure in twentieth-century architecture with his famous firm and the “greatest interpreter of International style” (Treccani), Ieoh Ming Pei (1917-2019) moved from China to the United States in 1935. After graduating from MIT (his thesis was awarded a Gold Medal by the American Institute of Architects), he became an American citizen in 1954. He later also studied at Harvard under the guidance of Walter Gropius. As the son of the ....
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César Portela
Cesar Portela (1937) studied at the Higher School of Architecture in Madrid and Barcelona, where he graduated in 1966 and received his doctorate two years later. In the following decades, he has held seminars and lectures in many international universities and institutions, including schools of architecture in Pamplona, Nancy, Caracas, Naples, Lisbon and Weimar. His early works include the parish house in Marín (1968), a bold prism on a baroque church, and the housing for ....
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Enzo Mari
After studying at the Accademia di Brera, Enzo Mari (1932-2020) began his career in industrial design working with numerous industries in a variety of different sectors (including graphics, publishing and exhibition installations). By the sixties he already held a prominent position on the Italian design scene, with a particular focus on the functional aspects of products. A three-time Compasso d’Oro winner, in his work Mari addresses “problems ....