Andrea Branzi
Andrea Branzi, architect and designer, born in Florence in 1938, where he graduated in 1966, has lived and worked in Milan since 1973. From 1964 to 1974 he was a member of the Archizoom Associati group, the first group of internationally renowned avant gardes, whose projects are now kept at the Studies and Communication Archives Center of the University of Parma; his thesis and several projects are kept at the Center Georges Pompidou in Paris.
“Today we are witnessing the re-emergence of behaviors that design is struggling to follow…”
In 2018 the Royal Academy of Fine Arts awarded him the Rolf Schock Prize of Visual Arts. Co-founder of Domus Academy, the first international design school to graduate. Author of numerous books on the history and theory of design, he has curated numerous exhibitions in the sector in Italy and abroad. In 1994 he received the Compasso d’Oro for his career.
