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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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Eileen Gray
Irish furniture designer and architect Eileen Gray (1878-1976) is considered a key figure in 20th century design for her influence in the Modernist movement. Born into a well-to-do family, Gray visited a number of different countries in her youth, including Italy, Switzerland and, above all, France, and particularly Paris during the 1900 World’s Fair. She then moved to London, where she was one of the first female pupils to be admitted to Slade ....
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Bernard Tschumi
A native of Lausanne, Bernard Tshumi (1944) is unanimously considered to be one of the leading interpreters of Deconstructivism. Born into the art (his father was Jean Tschumi, 1904-1962), he graduated from the ETH in Zurich in 1969. He has dual Swiss and French nationality, and lives and works between Paris and New York. In the 1970s Tshumi taught at the Architectural Association of London, then at Princeton and Cooper Union, and from 1988 to 2003 he was Dean ....
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Thom Mayne and Morphosis
American architect and academic, Thom Mayne (1944) was born in Connecticut but raised firstly in Indiana and later in California, relocating due to his mother’s series of jobs. Graduating in architecture from the University of Southern California in 1968, he completed his master’s degree at Harvard ten years later. Mayne is a founding member of SCI-Arc (Southern California Institute of Architecture). SCI-Arc group (now a private university in Los Angeles with ....