Andrea Branzi was born in Florence in 1938, is an architect and contemporary Italian designer. He was educated in his native city, Florence where he graduated in 1967. In 1973 he moved to Milan where he lives and works. It is alternately turn architect, urban planner, designer, decorator, artistic director ... He was one of the main actors of th...
Andrea Branzi was born in Florence in 1938, is an architect and contemporary Italian designer. He was educated in his native city, Florence where he graduated in 1967. In 1973 he moved to Milan where he lives and works. It is alternately turn architect, urban planner, designer, decorator, artistic director ... He was one of the main actors of the movement of radical Italian architecture from 1960-1970 and has established itself internationally , especially through his writings and iconic projects both in design in architecture.
Between 1964 and 1974, Andrea Branzi belongs to the avant-garde group Archizoom also composed of architects Gilberto Corretti, Paolo Deganello and Massimo Morozzi well as Dario and Lucia Bartolini designers. Archizoom is the source of radical architecture as well as the Superstudio group they expose in Pistoia in 1966 (exhibition "Superarchitettura"), or the English group Archigram.
In the 1980s, Branzi is part of the Memphis group founded by architect and consultant Ettore Sottsass. In 1983 he wrote the preface to the catalog of the exhibition devoted to Sottsass at the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris.
From 1964 to 1974 he was part of the avant-garde group.
The year 1974 marked the end of the Archizoom group.