Andrea Branzi: Italian designer, architect and academic dies at 84

Italian architect, designer, and educator Andrea Branzi. Although he spent the majority of his career living and working in Milan, he was born and reared in Florence. Up until 2009, he served as a professor and the head of the Polytechnic University of Milan’s School of Interior Design.

He has created designs that are part of the permanent collections of museums like the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Museum of Fine Arts Houston in Houston, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, the Vitra Design Museum in Weil am Rhein, and the ADI Design Museum in Milan. He received the Rolf Schock Prizes from the Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts on October 15, 2018.

Andrea Branzi: Italian designer, architect and academic dies at 84

Andrea Branzi, an internationally famous architect and artist who is widely regarded as one of the uncontested fathers of Italian design, passed away today at the age of 85.
With Massimo Morozzi, Paolo Deganello, and Gilberto Corretti, Andrea Branzi formed Archizoom Associati in 1966, one of the most successful and significant phenomena of modern design thought.