Andrea Branzi is an architect, designer, writer, educator and curator born in florence in 1938, where he graduated in 1966. Branzi was a founding member of the experimental group archizoom, which envisioned the ‘no stop city’ among other projects. A key member of the studio alchimia, founded in 1976, he went on to associate with the memphis group in the 1980s. In 1994, he received the compass° d'oro for his career.