Designer: Andrea Branzi

Architect and designer, Andrea Branzi was born in Florence in 1938, where he graduated in 1967. He now lives and works in Milan. From 1964 to 1974 he was part of the group working under the name Archizoom Associates, the first avantgarde group to gain international fame, whose projects are kept today in the Study and Archive Centre of the University of Parma, and of the Georges Pompidou Centre in Paris. Since 1967 he has been working with industrial and experimental design, architecture, urban planning, teaching and cultural promotion. He is Associate Professor at the Third Faculty of Architecture and Industrial Design at Milan Polytechnic.