.:. architecture / space and time together 

Andrea Branzi. Continuous Present
March 19 through October 4, 2026

more pictures .:. After Ettore Sottsass Jr. (1917-2007), Gae Aulenti (1927–2012), Alessandro Mendini (1931–2019) and Enzo Mari (1932-2020), Milan's leading institution for architecture is dedicating another major exhibition to a star from the golden age of Italian design. Branzi (1938-2023), however, was a thinker, a curator and a lecturer – better yet a philosopher – rather than a simply an architect, an urbanist or a designer. This is how his long-time colleague and friend Toyo Ito (Tokyo, 1941), who's been in charge of displaying the current exhibition, sees him.
.:. The urban question was always a the core of Branzi's research, since the No-Stop City he envisaged in his native Florence in the late 1960s, when a member of the Archizoom group. Although Branzi and Ito neither spoke each other's language nor they did English, it is not by chance that they had – or still have – strong parallel ideas. Branzi, a frequent lecturer and curator in Japan, was attracted by the country's culture, and the two of them shared a sort of Japan-style approach to the world as well as a vision of what a city could perhaps be, and is not.
.:. Under the aegis of Fondation Cartier (one of Branzi's long-time patrons), Ito has organized the exhibition as an endless series of flows. It's "a fluid, wall-free environment", featuring hundreds of real objects, drawings, reconstructions, and mirrors. Letting our bodies interact with this city is a dream full of surprises.

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Viale Emilio Alemagna 6
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