Paolo Deganello

Paolo Deganello is an architect, interior designer and professor, currently living and working in Milan. He fostered the radical design movement in Italy in the 1960s. After graduating in Architecture from the University of Florence in 1966, he opened, along with Branzi, Corretti and Morozzi, the radical architecture studio Archizoom Associati. Archizoomwas part of the radical design movement in Italy, designing anti-design furniture. Deganello showed work at numerous exhibitions, including Italy: The New Domestic Landscape, the 1972 exhibition mounted by the Museum of Modern Art in New York. He is also active as a publicist for Casabella, Lotus, CasaAmica, Experimenta, Domus, Pli, and Lib21. He has taught at the Universities of Florence and Alghero, and from 2006 to 2014 at ESAD/College of Art and Design. Currently he teaches Sustainable Interior Design in Florence. His oeuvre up to 2008 was published in his book As Razões do Meu Projecto Radical (ESAD, 2009), edited by Maria Milano.