Massimo Morozzi, Archizoom co-founder, dies aged 73
12/04/2014.
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Yesterday morning, the italian architect and designer Massimo Morozzi, co-founder of influential architecture studio Archizoom Associati and later art director for furniture brand Edra, died aged 73. Born in Florence in 1941, Morozzi co-founded Archizoom in 1966 together with artist Andrea Branzi and architects Gilberto Corretti and Paolo Deganello.
Archizoom in 1969. Right to left.- Gilberto Corretti, Andrea Branzi, Massimo Morozzi, Lucia Morozzi Bartolini, Dario Bartolini, Paolo Deganello.
Archizoom together with studios UFO and Superstudio, the founders became known as the "Italian Radicals". The group that founded the studio consists of Andrea Branzi (architect and designer), Gilberto Corretti (architect and designer), Paolo Deganello (architect and designer) and Massimo Morozzi (architect and designer), this group later in 1968 joined Dario Bartolini (designer) and Lucia Bartolini (designer).
Archizoom until its dissolution in 1974, was in projects of modernist vision as the theoretical metropolis, an influential but unbuilt "No-Stop City" proposal for a city built on an infinitely expanding grid.
Massimo Morozzi then pursued a successful career as an industrial designer, opening his studio in 1982 and working with brands including Alessi and Cassina and developing a concept car for Nissan. He became art director of Edra in 1987.
His son Guido Morozzi (Graphic Designer, Florence 1968) wrote announcing his father's death on Instagram: "Father, husband, friend, freethinker, man of fine intellect, avantgarde-minded artist, architect, inventor, creator of beauty through design, teacher, cook, grandfather. Bye dad, I'll miss you. I took this picture of him with a Leica CL 35mm film camera during Easter weekend 2009 in our home in Bolgheri, Tuscany."
Massimo Morozzi. Photography by Guido Morozzi.
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MASSIMO MOROZZI
Massimo Morozzi. Born in Florence in 1941 (January 28th, 1941 - April 10th, 2014), architect and designer. He lived and worked in Milan. Up until 1972, he was a member of the Archizoom group. Between 1972 and 1977 he co-ordinated the Montefiore Design Centre, designing furnishing fabrics and helping to establish the discipline of Primary Design. He later became a part of the CDM (Consulenti Design Milano) group, developing projects for coordinated corporate design (Rome Airports) and product lines (Louis Vuitton - Paris). In 1982 he opened his own studio and began devoting his attention to the sector of product design for housewares. Functional innovation and highly figurative approaches are the keys to his most recent work with Alessi, Cassina. He has developed important projects and creations for Japanese companies, including a concept car for Nissan. Since 1987 he has worked as art director for Edra and has designed various products for the company, including the modular system Paesaggi Italiani. He has held lectures and seminars in Amsterdam, Sao Paolo, Melbourne, Tokyo, Cape Town, Stockholm, and at the Domus Academy and the European Institute of Design in Milan. His works are displayed in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Musée des Arts Decoratives in Paris.
