Andrea Branzi passes away at 84
Andrea Branzi, an Italian architect, designer, and educator identified for his vital contributions to the fields of structure, industrial design, and concrete planning, has died on the age of 84. Stefano Boeri bids farewell to the designer with a heartfelt Instagram publish.
‘Andrea Branzi has left us. He was an enormous of radical thought on human areas, a classy historian of italian design, a visionary artist able to inhabiting different universes and parallel worlds with irony. He leaves us a strong and generative legacy of works and texts; and a movie produced a 12 months in the past by Triennale which is his mental testomony. He left us considering and dreaming. A couple of hours in the past, we spoke with him and Nicoletta and Emanuele Coccia to renew the venture of a ‘Nice Paris’ crossed by 50 thousand massive sacred cows -so that they might ‘scale back metropolitan stress’. Ciao Andrea, preserve dreaming about us.
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Andrea Branzi’s Architectural and Design Journey
Andrea Branzi started his architectural journey on the Florence College of Structure, the place he earned his diploma in 1966. Through the Nineteen Sixties and early Seventies, Branzi based Archizoom Associati along with Gilberto Corretti, Paolo Deganello, and Massimo Morozzi, an experimental design group identified for its groundbreaking tasks, together with the visionary No-Cease-Metropolis, an unbuilt venture presenting an city utopia the place the architectural type disappears and solely the important stays.
‘A venture that was of nice significance for me, but additionally for my era, for a lot of artists that got here afterwards was the No-Cease-Metropolis venture,’ Branzi instructed designboom in 2003. ‘A fluid metropolis, the place even the idea of modernity inside order adjustments in direction of an thought of uncontrollable complexity and a world destined to an enormous diversification. In the present day I see that one of these state of affairs is appreciated, shared by well-known up to date architects who acknowledge the unconventional motion and the No-Cease Metropolis venture to be a genetic occasion, which intercepted a growth within the tradition of the venture, changing into an instance throughout the venture itself.’
No-Cease Metropolis (1970) by Archizoom Associati
A few of Andrea Branzi’s notable furnishings designs embrace the Superonda couch (1966), the Mies chair (1968), and the modular Safari couch (1968). These items have been created with the intention of difficult standard notions of how we use and work together with furnishings. Later, he performed a big function in Studio Alchimia, based in 1976, and collaborated with the Memphis Group within the early Eighties. Within the mid-Eighties, Branzi shifted his design method away from the extremely stylized aesthetics of postmodernism and embraced what he termed ‘neoprimitivism,’ mixing parts of nature and artificiality.
The items featured uncooked sections of bushes built-in into smooth and minimalist tables, chairs, and benches, all characterised by a grayscale shade palette. Branzi’s affect extends past his design work. He co-founded Domus Academy, the primary worldwide post-graduate design college, and served as a professor and chairman of the College of Inside Design on the Politecnico di Milano till 2009. 
Home Animals bench (1985) by Andrea & Nicoletta Branzi | picture courtesy of Wright
In newer years, Branzi’s designs have advanced into private objects with a fragmented composition and refined Yiddish irony. These designs mirror his ongoing exploration of modern ideas and aesthetics on the earth of furnishings and object design. Branzi has obtained a number of awards all through his profession, together with three Compasso d’Oro, honored for particular person or group effort in 1979, 1987, and 1995. Moreover, he obtained the title of Honorary Royal Designer in the UK in 2008 and an honorary diploma from La Sapienza in Rome.
His work was additionally featured in an set up on the Fondation Cartier in Paris in the identical 12 months. In 2018, Branzi obtained the distinguished Rolf Schock Prize in Visible Arts from the Swedish Royal Academy of High quality Arts. Andrea Branzi’s design legacy endures, along with his works held within the everlasting collections of esteemed establishments just like the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, the Museum of High quality Arts in Houston, Texas, the Museum of Fashionable Artwork in New York, and the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, amongst others.
Safari couch (1967) by Archizoom Associati | picture courtesy of Poltronova
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