Andrea Branzi (November 30, 1938 – October 9, 2023) was one of the most influential figures in Italian radical architecture and contemporary design. Born in Florence and later working in Milan, he co-founded the groundbreaking design collective Archizoom Associati in 1966, where he pioneered provocative conceptual projects like No-Stop City that challenged conventional ideas about urban planning, domestic life, and mass production. Throughout his long and varied career, Branzi worked across multiple disciplines as an architect, furniture designer, theorist, critic, curator, and professor, making him a central figure in Italian design culture. His design philosophy was characterized by a restless, speculative approach that explored the relationships between nature and technology, the domestic and the urban, and the handmade and the industrial, often producing poetic, experimental furniture and objects inspired by natural forms and ecological concerns. Branzi's work reflected a deep engagement with contemporary society and its complexities, and his theoretical writings offered critical analyses of architecture and design that continue to influence practitioners. He remained active well into his later years, with his work still being celebrated through exhibitions and retrospectives, including tributes at Triennale Milano that honored him as one of Italian design's most radical minds.