Andrea Branzi, architect and designer, born in Florence, where he graduated in 1967, lives and works in Milano. From 1964 to 1974 he was a partner of Archizoom Associati, first Avanguard group internationally known, whose projects are preserved at Centro Studi e Archivio della Comunicazione in Parma and at Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris. He was one of the founders of the Domus Academy, the first international post-graduate school of design. A key member of the Studio Alchimia, founded in 1976, he went on to associate with the Memphis Group in the 1980s. Professor and chairman of the School of Interior Design at the Politecnico di Milano.