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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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Tony Fretton - TFA
British architect, Tony Fretton (1945) was born into a working class family in London’s East End. "His work (...) presents an original contribution and convincing proof of the vitality of contemporary British architecture. A vitality that comes first of all from his ability to critically analyze and develop the contribution of those masters (...) who in Great Britain in the dynamic 1950s developed an innovative interpretation of modern architectural concepts, merged with ....
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Rafael Moneo
One of the most well-known Spanish architects and most significant figures in world architecture, José Rafael Moneo (1937) graduated from Madrid university in 1961. After a two-year apprenticeship with Danish architect John Utzon’s practice (1961-1963) and pivotal fellowship to study in Rome, he returned to the Spanish capital where he opened his own design studio in 1966. He began teaching firstly in Madrid and Barcelona simultaneously, then internationally ....
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Maurice Nio - NIO architecten
Dutch architect and artist Maurice Nio (1959) graduated in 1988 from the Faculty of Architecture in Delft. His graduation project, a villa for pop star Michael Jackson, is an example of his “hybrid approach” to the discipline: a mixture of mythology and pragmatism, and the simultaneous presence of cryptic aspects and clear design strategies. In the early 1990s, he founded the NOX Architects group, “an unconventional design agency, which used to ....