Andreas Brandolini

Andreas Brandolini (born August 21, 1951 in Taucha ) is a German architect and designer .

Life

A bus stop designed by Brandolini in Limmerstrasse , Hanover

After studying architecture from 1973 to 1979 at the Technical University of Berlin , Brandolini worked from 1979 to 1981 as a designer and architect at Roericht Product Development in Ulm. In 1982 he founded the Bellefast workshop for experimental design in Berlin together with Joachim B. Stanitzek . From 1981 to 1989 he was a lecturer for design at the Berlin University of the Arts and in 1984 was a visiting professor for design at the Offenbach am Main University of Design . Brandolini was a co-founder of the avant-garde “ New German Design ” of the 1980s. He set standards in 1987 with his “German Living Room” at documenta 8 . From 1986 to 1993 he ran his own design studio in Berlin. In the late 1980s founded Brandolini with Jasper Morrison and Axel Kufus office Utilism International , whose focus was on exhibition design and urban planning. In 1994 Jasper Morrison and Brandolini each created a tram and bus stop for the art project BUSSTOPS in Hanover.

From 1989 to 2017 Brandolini taught as a professor at the Saar College of Fine Arts (HBK Saar) in Saarbrücken in the product design course with a focus on furniture and equipment design. From 1998 to 2001 he was prorector of the HBK Saar. At the same time, he was Art Director of the International Center for Glass Art (Center International d'Art Verrier, CIAV) in Meisenthal , France, from 1996 to 2003 . Brandolini lives and works in Petit-Réderching , France and Saarbrücken .

Fonts

• Study books Problem-Oriented Design # 4: Kaufhaus des Ostens. adocs, Hamburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-943253-06-1
• Fireside chats. Interviews and monologues. Schmitz, Kassel 1994, ISBN 3-927795-16-X .
• The hook. Texts about design. Schmitz, Kassel 1990, ISBN 978-3-927795-01-3 (3-927795-01-1).
• (as editor): Make way. Merve, Berlin 1991, ISBN 978-3-88396-079-1 .

Web links

• Homepage
• Literature by and about Andreas Brandolini in the catalog of the German National Library
• Entry in the Saar lexicon of artists