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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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Chris Bangle
The fame of American designer Chris Bangle (1956) is associated with the long period of automobile design (1981-2009), in which he designed numerous models for Opel, Fiat, and BMW characterized by innovation and an ongoing process of revisiting the language of modern automobile design. Over the last several years, with his firm Chris Bangle Associates (with headquarters in Clavesana, in the province of Cuneo, Italy), he has worked outside the automotive sector, primarily in design ....
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Norman Foster
One of the most eminent and influential British architects and designers of recent decades, Norman Foster (1935) graduated from the University of Manchester (1956-1961), following military service as a pilot in the Royal Air Force (1953-1955). In the subsequent two years he gained his Master’s Degree at Yale, where he met Richard Rogers, with whom he worked from 1963 to 1967 at Team 4. After parting company with Rogers, Foster founded Foster Associates in 1967 (now ....
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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 ....