ph. Enrico Basili_Dogma

Massimo Iosa Ghini (Bologna, Italy, 1959), a professional designer and project manager, is a well-versed, “all-round” intellectual. Reputed to be one of the most important Italian professionals on an international level, Iosa Ghini has over time acquired a “transversal” project vision, conceived for a society that is undergoing constant development, in which product design and architectural project blend and mutually enrich one another. Through an unmistakable figurative talent, Iosa Ghini pursues an expressive language that is heavily influenced by his cultural roots – which sink deep in comic strips and graphic art - to which he then sides a solid commitment in terms of eco-sustainability.

• Exedra Nice Hotel, Boscolo Group, 2008. ph. Nicola Schiaffino
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• Ferrari Factory Store, Serravalle Designer Outlet (2009), Serravalle Scrivia (AL). ph. Gianluca Grassano
• Ferrari Factory Store, Serravalle Designer Outlet (2009), Serravalle Scrivia (AL). ph. Gianluca Grassano
• Ferrari Factory Store, Serravalle Designer Outlet (2009), Serravalle Scrivia (AL). ph. Gianluca Grassano
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Iosa Ghini has studied architecture in Florence to then graduate at the Institute of Polytechnical Studies in Milan. From 1985, he takes part in state of the art architecture and Italian design: he founds the cultural movement “Bolidismo” and becomes part of the “Memphis” group with Ettore Sottsass. Toward the end of the Eighties, he opens the studio “Iosa Gihini Associati” with offices in Milan and Bologna. He holds conferences in several universities, among which the Institute of Polytechnical Studies of Milan, the Domus Academy, the Sapiena University of Rome, the Elisava School in Barcelona, the Design Fachhoschule of Cologne, and the Hochschule fur Angewandte Kunst in Vienna. He is a professor since 2007 at the MBA of the Alma Graduate School of Bologna and, since 2008, Adjunct Professor at the Institute of Polytechnical Studies of Hong Kong. His projects have received important acknowledgements, among which the Roscoe Award in the United States (1988), the Good Design Award by the Chicago Athenaeum (in 2001, 2004, and 2010), and the Red Dot Award (2003). Among his countless works, we name a few in the architectural realm: the power strip “People mover” in Bologna (2009),
the housing intervention Cyprus Full Circle (2007), the New York Residence in Budapest, the Galleria Ferrari Museum (2004), the Busstop in Hannover (1994); and in the realm of design, numerous collaborations with Alessi, Cassina, Poltrona Frau, Natuzzi, and many other prestigious manufacturing and entrepreneurial realities, both nationally and internationally.

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