{"id":641,"date":"2023-10-10T09:30:34","date_gmt":"2023-10-10T09:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smalldivine.com\/?p=641"},"modified":"2023-10-11T12:44:27","modified_gmt":"2023-10-11T12:44:27","slug":"giant-of-radical-thinking-andrea-branzi-dies-aged-84","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/smalldivine.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/10\/giant-of-radical-thinking-andrea-branzi-dies-aged-84\/","title":{"rendered":"“Giant of radical thinking” Andrea Branzi dies aged 84"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Italian architect and designer Andrea Branzi<\/a>, who was one of the founders of influential studio Archizoom Associati and the Domus Academy, has died<\/a> aged 84.<\/span><\/p>\n

Over a six-decade career, Branzi created numerous avant-garde designs along with his work as an educator, first at the Domus Academy and then at the School of Interior Design at the Polytechnic University of Milan.<\/p>\n

In 2022 he won the Italian Architecture Prize’s lifetime achievement award, having also won several awards throughout his career including three Compasso d’Oro in 1979, 1987 and 1995.<\/p>\n

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Andrea Branzi designed the Mies chair as part of Archizoom Associati<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

His death was marked by Italian architect and president of the Triennale Milano Stefano Boeri, who called the architect “a visionary artist”.<\/p>\n

“Andrea Branzi has left us,” wrote Boeri on Instagram<\/a>. “He was a giant of radical thinking on human spaces, a sophisticated historian of Italian design, a visionary artist capable of ironically inhabiting other universes and parallel worlds.”<\/p>\n

“He leaves us a powerful and generative legacy of works and texts. He left us thinking and dreaming. Hi Andrea, keep dreaming about us,” he continued.<\/p>\n

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Branzi also designed the Superonda chair<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Born in 1938, Branzi graduated from the Florence School of Architecture in 1966. The same year he formed the avant-garde architecture studio Archizoom Associati with Gilberto Corretti, Paolo Deganello and Massimo Morozzi.<\/p>\n

A lead proponent of the Radical Design movement, the studio collaborated with\u00a0Superstudio to create the influential Superarchitettura exhibition to showcase its ideals.<\/p>\n

One of the studio’s most significant designs was a proposal for an experimental city that was stripped back to only essential elements and could be extended indefinitely, called the No-Stop City. One of the plans for the city is held in the collection of Museum of Modern Art in New York.<\/p>\n