Straight Curve, Benjamin Migliore is a French- Argentinean designer born in 1986 in Montpellier. He studied at La Llotja in Barcelona focusing on product design. Before moving on to creating furniture he worked as a physical model maker in Barcelona as a Yacht Designer and interior design boat with Catia and 3D studio max. Starting 2012 he started working for a Ricardo Bofill Taller de Arquitectura in the interior architecture and furniture design department.
Together they working on international project such as: an airport in Beijing, a theater in Russia, a university in Morocco, and a hotel in Kazakhstan. Benjamin Migliore designed a ceiling lamp with a concept that the lamp is formed curves from straight segments. The composition of the lamp is structured of 42 strips of white pine with the dimensions of 20x20mm thick. In the algorithm the curves are made up of the straight segments. The curves of the designed are obtained are a parabolic arc and not multiple arcs, as it may seem.
Maiar Mansour is an editor at Arch2O with a unique lens shaped by her background in architecture, visual arts, and human-centered design. A graduate of the Faculty of Fine Arts, Maiar discovered her passion for UI/UX through civil society work, storytelling workshops, and freelance design for arts events. Her editorial approach blends emotional intelligence with a strong visual sensibility, guided by a belief in storytelling and design coherence. With training from ITI and Udacity and hands-on experience as a UI/UX designer, she brings fresh perspectives on how environments shape human behavior, emotion, and interaction in design.