Andrea Branzi by Toyo Ito Continuous Present

Together with Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, we present a major monographic exhibition dedicated to Andrea Branzi—a central figure in Italian design and project-based thinking between the last century and the present—through the perspective of Pritzker Prize laureate Toyo Ito, a longtime friend and collaborator of Branzi. The exhibition unfolds as a dialogue among installations, objects, drawings, and photographs, highlighting the key themes of Branzi’s research. It also retraces Branzi’s deep connection with both institutions: on one side, his role at Triennale as designer, theorist, and curator between 1973 and 2022; on the other, the environments created for Open Enclosures, the exhibition held at Fondation Cartier in 2008. A biographical section guides visitors from his early radical experiments with Archizoom, through Alchimia and Memphis, to the development of his anthropological approach to design. A large site-specific installation is dedicated to No Stop City (1969–1972), the project that crystallized his critique of the modern metropolis.