Andrea Branzi at Triennale: Toyo Ito's Continuous Present
Toyo Ito’s retrospective of Andrea Branzi opened at Triennale Milano on 19 March 2026 with a 1:1 reconstruction of Archizoom’s No-Stop City and a thesis Branzi spent fifty-seven years arguing — that Italian radical design was never an avant-garde, it was a continuous present. The exhibition, “Andrea Branzi by Toyo Ito. Continuous Present,” runs to 4 October 2026 in the Palazzo dell’Arte at Viale Alemagna 6, gathers more than 400 drawings, models, objects, viewing devices, environments, videos and archival materials across 11 thematic sections, and was developed with the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain. It is the largest Branzi retrospective ever staged. It is also the keystone of the city’s wider 2026 archive turn — the same week as the Common Archive / Notte Bianca at Salone, the same season as Cassina’s Le Corbusier Inédits, the same calendar as Armani/Archivio — but the only one of those projects whose subject is the operating system, not a single oeuvre. ...