Andrea Branzi
Architect and designer, born in Florence in 1938, where he graduated in 1966, he has lived and worked in Milan since 1973.
From 1964 to 1974 he was a member of the Archizoom Associati group, the first internationally renowned avant-garde group, whose projects are now preserved at the Communication Studies and Archives Center of the University of Parma; his dissertation and several projects are held at the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris.
Co-founder of Domus Academy, the first international graduate design school.
Author of several books on the history and theory of design, he has curated numerous exhibitions in this field in Italy and abroad. In 1994, he received the Compasso d’Oro for his career.