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Bamboo DNA was founded by artist and New York City native Gerard Minakawa, who created the company in response to an immediate need for unique, high performance bamboo materials with which to design and construct his structures. Minakawa holds a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and recently taught a design class for the school in Bolivia, where he had lived for three years working with indigenous artisans prior to creating Bamboo DNA. He is an award-winning designer whose work has been featured in numerous publications around the world. |
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Kevin Rowell is co-founder of the Natural Builders, a design, build, and consultation construction company based in the East Bay (San Francisco Bay Area, CA). He lived and worked in Laos for three years before returning to the U.S. and now teaches natural building workshops in addition to his busy professional schedule.
http://thenaturalbuilders.com/ |
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Nils Hammerbeck founded Studio XYZ in 1995 to pursue dreams in the art of architecture, construction, and photography in a concurrent manner, after +/-20 years of employment in high end residential architecture, interior design, and landscape design firms around the Western United States. He is a registered architect in the State of California
http://www.xyz-dna.com// |
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Ken Tomita, owner and designer of Tomita Designs, draws inspiration from traditional Japanese forms and the multi-cultural context of his upbringing. Designing and building each of his pieces in Portland, Oregon he taps the potential of bamboo ply as a rapidly renewable contemporary building material.
http://www.tomitadesigns.com/ |
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David Fogalini (aka "Kalo") is an artisan and designer based out of Southern California who features reclaimed and locally-harvested resources in his work.
http://footprintartisan.com/ |
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Simply... Dad (he does everything)
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