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MASSIMO IOSA GHINI
PROFILO ANAGRAFICO
- Website: www.iosaghini.it
- Member since: 25.02.2011
- Last login: 14.01.2022
- Address: BOLOGNA (BO)
- Country: it
PROFILO PROFESSIONALE
IOSA GHINI ASSOCIATES
Iosa Ghini Associates has offices in Bologna and in
Milan, where fourty architects, engineers and designers of different
nationalities work together. Founded in 1990 during the time it acquired a
particular expertise in developing projects for large groups and developers
that operate internationally. The professional development of the company grows
in industrial and product design and spaces, designing areas and structures
dedicated to public transport and design of worldwilde retail chain stores.
Born in 1959, Massimo Iosa Ghini studied architecture in Florence and then
graduated from Polytechnic Institute of Milan. Today he is considered one of
the best known Italian architects and designers rightfully
on the international scene. Since 1985 he participates at the avant‐garde of architecture and Italian design; he founded the cultural
movement Bolidism and joined the Memphis group with Ettore Sottsass. In 1989,
in Osaka, he received the keys to the city. In the same year he opened the Iosa
Ghini Associates in Milan and Bologna designing for the most important
worldwide companies in industrial design, like Poltrona Frau, Moroso, Cassina,
Zumtobel, I Guzzini, Firme di Vetro Group, Yamagiwa, Duravit, Dornbracht and
many others. He holds conferences and lectures in various universities,
including the Polytechnic Institute of Milan, the Domus Academy, the University
of Rome La Sapienza, the School Elisava of Barcelona, the Design Fachhoschule
of Cologne and the Hochschule fur Angewandte Kunst in Vienna. Moreover, he
teaches from 2007 at the all’MBA of Alma Graduate School of Bologna; and from
2008 he is Adjunct Professor at the Polytechnic of Hong Kong. His works can be found in various
international museums. His projects have received important international
awards, including the Roscoe Award USA, 1988; the Good Design Award in 2001,
2004, 2009, 2010 and 2011 by the Chicago Athenaeum; the Red Dot Award in 2003; the iF Product Design Award in 2011 and the IAI AWARD Green Design
Global Award (Shanghai, China) in 2011.
- product design
- interior design
- lightning design
- furniture design
- architecture
- landscape