Andrea Branzi
Andrea Branzi (30 November 1938 – 9 October 2023) was an Italian architect, designer, and academic. 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.
Andrea Branzi

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- Born
- 1938 · Florence.
- Died
- 2023 · Milan.
- Nationality
- Kingdom of Italy · Italy
- Occupation
- architect · designer · urban planner · writer · university teacher
- Fields
- architecture · industrial design right · urbanism · industrial design
- Honours
- Compasso d'Oro · Rolf Schock Prize in Visual Arts
- Languages
- Italian
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Andrea Branzi (30 November 1938 – 9 October 2023) was an Italian architect, designer, and academic. 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.
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Life and career
Life and career
The recorded working language is Italian. The field of work recorded is architecture, industrial design right and urbanism. Places of work recorded in the authority are Milan. Employment is recorded with Polytechnic University of Milan and Cor Unum. Work by Andrea Branzi is recorded in the collections of Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Design Museum Gent, Museum of Modern Art and Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. Distinctions recorded are Compasso d'Oro and Rolf Schock Prize in Visual Arts.
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, founded in 1982, for its first ten years. 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. Branzi died on 9 October 2023, at the age of 84.
Career and activity
Career and activity
Andrea Branzi worked in architecture, industrial design right, urbanism and industrial design. He was employed by Polytechnic University of Milan and Cor Unum. He belonged to Archizoom, Memphis Group and Accademia delle Arti del Disegno. He worked at Milan.
Identity
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Andrea Branzi is recorded as having received Compasso d'Oro and Rolf Schock Prize in Visual Arts.
Life and career
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Life and career
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1938
Andrea Branzi was born in 1938 at Florence.
2023
Andrea Branzi died in 2023 at Milan.
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Florence.
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Milan.
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- “Andrea Branzi”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
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- Wikidata, structured authority record Q2846309: Andrea Branzi
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scholarly publication
- Branzi, Andrea, Encyclopedia of Contemporary Italian Culture, 2002
Scholarly · Crossref registry · 2002
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.
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- 1.Le designer italien Andrea Branzi est mort. Le Monde.fr. 2023-10-10 lire en.
- 2.Le nom Archizoom rend hommage aux architectes britanniques d’Archigram dont ils se revendiquent.
- 3.Voir sur frac-centre.fr.
- 4.Voir sur labiennale.org.
- 5.Dès les années 1960, le design prend beaucoup d’importance en Italie. Plus que fonctionnel, le design est un art et un vecteur de réflexion sur la société en pleine mutation. Les designers italiens deviennent célèbres et travaillent dans différents studios en ayant toujours une réflexion que l’on peut rapprocher de celle de l’architecte, sur les modes de vie et les espaces. Ettore Sottsass, designer italien, a fait partie du studio Alchimia créé en 1976 à Milan et il a créé le groupe Memphis à Milan en 1981 ; voir sur designmust.fr.
- 6.Andrea Branzi x Carpenters Workshop Gallery: Trees. sleekdesign.fr. 2012.
- 7.Roxana Azimi, « Le design italien garde de son éclat », le 20 mars 2005, sur lemonde.fr.
- 8.Attribué par l'ADI (Associazione per il Disegno Industriale).
Bibliography printed in the source article · 7
- Article dans L’Architecture d’Aujourd'hui , .
- Il dibattito architettonico in Italia dal 1947 al 1875 di Conforto, De Giorgi, Muntoni, Pazzaglini en 1976.
- Article dans le de Japan Interior Design,
- Article « Attention: voilà les modernes. Révolutionnaires de Salon », dans la revue Actuel, de par J. Rouzaud.
- Andrea Branzi Architetture, T. De Montis, V. Russo, S. Balestrazzi, 1994.
- Articles sur Andrea Branzi et Archizoom Associati dans le Dictionnaire de l'architecture du , 1996.
- Andrea Branzi. Norma éditions. 2025. 978-2-3766-6110-8.
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Branzi, Andrea, Encyclopedia of Contemporary Italian Culture, 2002Crossref registry
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Andrea Branzi received Compasso d'Oro and Rolf Schock Prize in Visual Arts.
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Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Design Museum Gent, Museum of Modern Art and Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
The Encyclopedia exists whether or not anything is for sale. Corrections are recorded rather than overwritten, and every version of this record is kept. Published 16 August 2026.
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