Massimo Iosa Ghini

Considered one of the most prominent Italian architects and designers in the international design scene, Massimo Iosa Ghini (Bologna, 1959) participated in the 1980s in the innovative action carried out by the avant-garde design movements by founding the cultural movement Bolidismo and being part of Ettore Sottsass's Memphis group.
In 1990 he opened the Iosa Ghini Associati studio, which today operates in Milan, Bologna and Miami, developing projects for large international groups and developers and dealing with the design of residential, commercial and museum architectural spaces, cultural installations, areas and structures dedicated to public transport, as well as retail projects for international groups.

In 2013, the Triennale di Milano dedicated an entire anthology to him, “From the Beginnings to Today Sustainable”. In 2015, the Kiko Milano retail concept won the Best Retail Global Expansion at Mapic 2014. Massimo Iosa Ghini, appointed Ambassador of Italian Design and the Red Dot Network, Full Member of the Leonardo Committee and the Accademia Clementina, received the Marconi Prize for Creativity in 2015.

His major interior design and architecture works include the worldwide development of the Ferrari Store and Kiko Store chains, the Capital Group headquarters in Moscow, the Giorgio Morandi House Museum in Bologna, the Kröpcke Metro Station in Hannover, the collaboration with the Cremonini Chef Express Group for motorway and airport areas, the new IBM Rome Software Lab in Rome, the People Mover electric monorail in Bologna, the Brickell Flatiron residential building and the 830 Brickell office building in Miami and numerous projects under construction.
He has been a lecturer at La Sapienza University in Rome; since 2008 he has been Adjunct Professor at the Hong Kong Polytechnic; and at the Department of Architecture, University of Ferrara.
Many of his projects have received awards and mentions, including the International Architectural Award by Chicago Athenaeum, Good Design Award, Roscoe Award, IAI Green Design Award, iF Product Design Award and Red Dot Award.