ALESSANDRO MENDINI
An architect, designer, painter and architecture and design theorist, he was born in Milan in 1931. He gained international renown in the Sixties of the XX century; he is linked to the theoretical foundation of Postmodern Design and the concepts of banal design (the design that utilises banal as a linguistic code and "allows citation, incongruence, inauthenticity and incompleteness") and of re-design ("decoration interventions on rediscovered objects or famous design products").
He started his activity as a member of the Nizzoli studio (1960-70) and then alternated this activity with a strong theoretical and critical commitment. Mr. Mandini was the protagonist of many of the most important cultural events of the XX century; he contributed theoretically on ongoing phenomena and by creating new schools of thought.
An architect, designer, painter and architecture and design theorist, he was born in Milan in 1931. He gained international renown in the Sixties of the XX century; he is linked to the theoretical foundation of Postmodern Design and the concepts of banal design (the design that utilises banal as a linguistic code and "allows citation, incongruence, inauthenticity and incompleteness") and of re-design ("decoration interventions on rediscovered objects or famous design products").
He started his activity as a member of the Nizzoli studio (1960-70) and then alternated this activity with a strong theoretical and critical commitment. Mr. Mandini was the protagonist of many of the most important cultural events of the XX century; he contributed theoretically on ongoing phenomena and by creating new schools of thought.
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