Andrea Branzi

Andrea Branzi
Andrea Branzi at the opening of the Domus Academy academic year (2008)
Born30 November 1938
Florence (Kingdom of Italy)
Died9 October 2023 (aged 84)
Milan
OccupationArchitect, designer, university teacher
Awards
  • honorary Royal Designer for Industry (2008)
Websitehttp://www.andreabranzi.it/
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Andrea Branzi (30 November 1938 – 9 October 2023) was an Italian architect, designer, and academic.[1] He was born and raised in Florence, though he lived and worked in Milan for much of his career. He was a professor and chairman of the School of Interior Design at the Polytechnic University of Milan until 2009.[2]

Life and career

Branzi studied as an architect at the Florence School of Architecture. He received his degree in 1966, then founded Archizoom Associati with Gilberto Corretti, Paolo Deganello, Massimo Morozzi in 1966 in Florence where they developed the No-Stop City. In 1976, he established Studio Alchimia and in the 1980s began to associate with the Memphis Group. Branzi also served as the cultural director of Domus Academy, Italy’s first postgraduate design school, for its first ten years.[3] His design works are included in permanent collections of museums such as the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Victoria & Albert Museum, London; Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein, and the ADI Design Museum in Milan.[4][5][6]

Branzi died on 9 October 2023, at the age of 84.[1][7]

Awards and honors

In 1979, Andrea Branzi was awarded the prestigious Italian industrial design award Compasso d'Oro.

In 2005, Branzi received his second Compasso d'Oro Award.

In 2008, he was named an Honorary Royal Designer for Industry by the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA) in the UK.

On 15 October 2018, he was awarded the Rolf Schock Prizes by the Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts.[8]

References

  1. ^ a b "È morto a 84 anni l'architetto e designer Andrea Branzi". Il Post (in Italian). 9 October 2023. Retrieved 9 October 2023.
  2. ^ "Branzi, Andrea nell'Enciclopedia Treccani". www.treccani.it (in Italian). Retrieved 31 July 2023.
  3. ^ Barbara Casavecchia, Anna Cirillo. "Le scuole gioiello del design vendute a un colosso americano". Archivio - la Repubblica.it (in Italian). 13 January 2010. Archived from the original on 28 January 2010. Retrieved 17 March 2020.
  4. ^ "Artiste/personnalité Andrea Branzi". Centre Pompidou. Retrieved 13 May 2021.
  5. ^ "Andrea Branzi". The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Retrieved 12 May 2021.
  6. ^ "Farfalla Textile". The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Retrieved 12 May 2021.
  7. ^ "Friedman Benda NY considers design as motifs of ‘The New Transcendence’". www.stirpad.com. Retrieved 4 March 2024.
  8. ^ "A mathematician, a logician, a soloist and an Italian avant-gardist are awarded the Rolf Schock Prizes 2018". Kungl Vetenskaps Akademien (The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences). 15 March 2018. Archived from the original on 15 March 2018. Retrieved 17 March 2020.

Further reading

  • Fiell, Charlotte; Fiell, Peter (2005). Design of the 20th Century (25th anniversary ed.). Köln: Taschen. pp. 128–129. ISBN 9783822840788. OCLC 809539744.

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