Andrea Branzi by Toyo Ito Triennale Milano, Italian architecture exhibition, Italy architect show 2026
22 March 2026
Triennale Milano:
‘Andrea Branzi by Toyo Ito, Continuous Present’
March 19– October 4, 2026
Original Design: Giovanni Muzio Architect
Location: Parco Sempione, Milan, Italy
Andrea Branzi picture:
< img src="// www.w3.org/2000/svg%22%20viewBox=%220%200%20266%20400%22%3E%3C/svg%3E"data-src="https://www.e-architect.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/andrea-branzi-by-toyo-ito-triennale-milano-a200326-obg-266x400.webp"alt="Andrea Branzi portrait "width ="266"height="400"/ > picture © Olivier Benoit-Gonin Andrea Branzi by Toyo Ito Exhibition, Triennale Milano, Milan, Italy As part of their cultural collaboration, from March 19 to October 4, 2026 Triennale Milano and Fondation Cartier put l’art contemporain exist a big monographic exhibition dedicated to Andrea Branzi– a designer, designer, teacher, manager and artist, recognized as one of the leading modern figures in Italian style and design viewpoint– portrayed through the eyes of the Pritzker acclaimed Japanese architect Toyo Ito, Branzi’s co-author of many jobs and long time friend.This exhibition Andrea Branzi by Toyo Ito. Constant Present is a tribute that arises from the close bond that the 2 cultural organizations preserved with Andrea Branzi: on one side there was his collaboration with Triennale Milano as a designer, theoretician and curator, that took shape in numerous efforts carried out from 1968 till 2022; on the other was the reflections that led him to develop the two environments initially presented in the Open Enclosures exhibition, staged at the Fondation Cartier in 2008, and since then belonging to its collection, an unique example of porousness in between landscape, architecture, art and design.Andrea Branzi– Modello di urbanizzazione umida, Expo di Saragoza,
2008:< img src ="https://www.e-architect.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/modello-urbanizzazione-umida-andrea-branzi-a200326-am-520x347.webp"alt="2008 Modello urbanizzazione umida"width="520"height="347"/ > picture: Studio Branzi. Courtesy Collezione privata Conceived by Toyo Ito, in collaboration with Lorenza Branzi and Nicoletta Morozzi, and curated by Nina Bassoli, manager for architecture, city regeneration and cities at Triennale, and Michela Alessandrini, manager at Fondation Cartier, the exhibition is a biographical travel plan– from Branzi’s very first extreme experimentations in Florence with Archizoom Associati, through his experiences with Alchimia and Memphis, up to the advancement of an anthropological method to style– highlighting Branzi’s continuous research study into the subjects of fragility, hybridization, coexistence, ecology, and the cross-fertilization between disciplines.Toyo Ito shapes the exhibition design as “the unceasing circulation”, based upon the concept of a fluid schedule that can highlight how the pieces provided in the exhibition and Andrea Branzi’s philosophy exist neither in the previous nor in the future, but in a”constant present “. It offers the general public the experience of a living and evolving practice, within an area by”circulation and eddies”. Andrea Branzi– Pineta di Architettura, 2006:< img src= "https://www.e-architect.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/andrea-branzi-by-toyo-ito-triennale-milano-a200326-dk-520x347.webp"alt="Andrea Branzi by Toyo Ito, Triennale Milano"width="520"height="347"/ > photo: Daniel Kukla. Courtesy Friedman Benda and Andrea Branzi Over 400 works are on display in the exhibit, including ecological installations, models and styles, small and large scale things from well-known and less familiar item varieties, in addition to archive videos and files. The exhibit opens and closes with 2 selfportraits, and consists of a big site-specific installation committed to No-Stop City( 1969– 72 ), the fundamental task that took shape Branzi’s concept of”the writing of territory”and represents a radical critique of the modern-day metropolitan area; there is also a journey through the various subsequent experiments in architectural, landscape, and urban style, culminating in a series of display screen screens committed to theoretical metropolises.Andrea Branzi By Toyo Ito. Continuous Present: pictures: Andrea Rossetti © Triennale Milano The exhibit travel plan is set out in a thematic archipelago made up of 11 areas, in a fluid space that fosters natural, mutable and nonstop restored similarities in between the works. The exhibit course leads through the reproduction of Superarchitettura (Superarchitecture)– the very first exhibit of Archizoom in 1966– and the very first furniture and style varieties, with a special in-depth exploration devoted to No-Stop City; it continues through a broad choice of area tasks in Metropoli teoriche (Theoretical cities), and the experimentations with materials performed during the 1970s, combined in Decorattivo (Decoractive).
The Superfici Attive( Active Surface areas )area presents a series of landscape tasks, while some interior design tasks and furnishings can be seen inside the Case a pianta centrale( Homes with a main plan), consisting of the famous Animali Domestici(Domestic Animals)series. At the core of the exhibit the two Open Enclosures ecological setups Ellipse and Gazebo are reactivated, anticipating the significant setup Record e Paradiso and other products of the section they come from, Ambienti e Triennale Milano dispositivi espositivi (Environments and exhibit gadgets), which is concentrated on the role of showing and composing in Branzi’s aesthetical and spatial vision of the world. The Japanese tasks can be discovered in La civiltà dell’ascolto (The civilization of listening) area, near Musei, piazze, mostre, palchi (Museums, Piazzas, exhibitions and stages), an exploration of his curatorial and museographic along with worrying public place and theatre’s staging tasks.
Coming towards the end of the show, we discover themed islands of objects and anthropologic designs committed to Ospitalità cosmica(Cosmic Hospitality)on interspecies cohabitation and cooperation; and Oggetto Ibrido(Hybrid item), where Branzi’s design brakes barriers by explore grafts. Lastly, midway through the course thought of by the managers, one can find a space committed to publications and unreleased videos interviews by Hans Ulrich Obrist, a way to cultivate education and transmission as a strong value in Branzi’s practice.The exhibition is accompanied by a public program of occasions, which will happen in between April and October 2026 and will begin with a lecture by Toyo Ito on Monday April 20 at 11.00, arranged for the occasion of Milan Style Week.
A book is co published by Electa, Triennale Milano and the Fondation Cartier in conjunction with the exhibition. Readily available in Italian and English, it checks out Andrea Branzi’s primary lines of thought in a series of thematic essays and brings together over 50 contributions from authors, designers and global artists who were each invited to describe the impact of an influential work by Andrea Branzi on their own work and on contemporary design culture by attending to picked projects. The text is accompanied by a large choice of formerly unpublished images, images, illustrations and archival documents.Triennale Milano Institutional Partners ‘Deloitte and Fondazione Deloitte, Lavazza Group and Salone del Mobile.Milano are supporting Triennale Milano with this exhibition. Triennale Milano also thanks Rotaliana for its assistance in the exhibit setup. Triennale Milano Exhibit Details Andrea Branzi by Toyo Ito. Continuous Present March 19– October 4, 2026 A production by: Triennale Milano and Fondation Cartier put l’art contemporain In collaboration with: Lorenza Branzi and Nicoletta Morozzi Concept and exhibit style: Toyo Ito & Associates, Architects Curated by: Nina Bassoli and Michela Alessandrini Exhibition Tickets Complete price tickets: 16 euros/ concessions: 11,50 euros/ trainees: 8 euros Day ticket to check out all the exhibits at Triennale Milano: 25 euros Advance sales: triennale.org Details on advance sales: bigletteria @(at) triennale.org Tel. +39 02 72434239 Triennale Milano opening times Tuesday– Sunday 10.30– 20.00( last admittance 19.00)Triennale Milano Communications: press(at)triennale.org
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