Andrea Branzi - one of the undisputed fathers of Italian design, internationally renowned architect and artist - died today, at the age of 85.
In 1966, Andrea Branzi founded, with Massimo Morozzi, Paolo Deganello and Gilberto Corretti, one of the most fruitful and influential phenomena of contemporary design thinking: Archizoom Associati.
The studio was the hotbed of radical design thinking: from here was born the idea of considering architecture and design as tools for a critical elaboration of society and its consumerist tendencies.
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The Archizoom thought, which influenced entire generations of designers as well as the entire poetics of the very first Italian Design (the one that Emilio Ambasz described in the exhibition The New Domestic Landscape at MoMA in 1972), took shape in the highly celebrated No Stop City, </ em>a project-manifesto of a city aware of the new modernity where it is natural to question and question the dogmas of urban modernity.
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A highly refined thinker and artist, Andrea Branzi was also among the founders of Domus Academy and trained entire generations of designers at the Polytechnic of Milan (his belief, regarding teaching, was that "you teach to learn").
Until November 30th, at the Antonia Jannone gallery in Milan, the exhibition "Architecture belongs to the theatre" on the work of Andrea Branzi
In 1987 he obtained the Compasso d'Oro for Lifetime Achievement.
Always a valued collaborator of Interni, Andrea Branzi also recently expressed himself in our newspaper, describing the experience of radical design and the fundamental role that that thought still has today.
Al new Radical Design, Interni has dedicated an issue, read here