MASSIMO IOSA GHINI was born in 1959. He studied architecture in Florence and graduated from the Polytechnic School in Milan. Since 1985 he has been part of the Italian design vanguard. He founded the cultural movement known as Bolidismo and became part of the Memphis group with Ettore Sottsass. In those years he opened Studio Iosa Ghini Associati, working as an architect and a designer. Since those days he has been designing collections of objects and developing art direction projects for first-rate Italian and foreign design companies (including Duravit, I Guzzini, Listone Giordano, Poltrona Frau, Snaidero, Teuco, Zumtobel) with his widely recognised style. His professional evolution as an architect matured in designing architectural spaces, exhibitions, cultural and trade installations, design projects for store chains worldwide. For many of these companies he has also developed their interior design identity to be applied to all their offices and sales points. He holds conferences and lectures in many universities, including the Polytechnic School of Milan, the Domus Academy, the La Sapienza University in Rome, the Scuola Elisava in Barcelona, the Design Fachhoschule in Köln and the Hochschule fur Angewandte Kunst in Vienna. Since 2007 he has been teaching at the MBA of the Alma Graduate School University of Bologna; since 2008 he is Adjunct Professor at the School of Design in the Polytechnic School of Hong Kong. His works are hosted in many international museums and private collections. He has received important acknowledgements, including the 1988 Roscoe Award in the USA, the 2001 and 2004 Good Design Award from the Chicago Athenaeum and the 2003 Red Dot Award; in 1989 in Osaka he received the Keys of the City. His Studio, Iosa Ghini Associati, is based in Bologna and in Milan. Among the leading interior design projects he has recently developed: the Ferrari Stores in Europe, United States and Asia; the communal areas of the New York Palace Hotel, the Boscolo Group in Budapest, Hungary; airport areas and VIP lounges for Alitalia; Seat Pagine Gialle offices in Turin; a new concept of mail office for Poste Italiane, 2008; Hotel Exedra in Nice, France, 2008; Grand Hotel Lione now under construction. Among the most significant architectural projects: the Kröpcke underground station in Hannover, Germany, 2000; The Collection trade centre in Miami, USA, 2002; the One-Two building project in Miami, 2004; the Museo Galleria Ferrari (Ferrari Museum) in Maranello, Modena, 2004; the urban requalification project in Via Tomacelli, Rome, 2005; the multifunctional complex for the Boscolo Group now underway in Budapest, Hungary; the residential complex for the Full Circus under construction in Nicosia, Republic of Cyprus; the San Marco Parking Area in Venice, 2008; the IBM Executive Business Centre in Rome, 2009. He took part in several exhibitions from 1989 to 2007, from the Ida Inspiration Gallery at the Axis Building in Tokyo to Disegni di Architettura (Architecture Drawings) at the Galleria Antonia Jannone in Milan and to Il mito della Velocità (the legend of speed) at the Palazzo delle Esposizioni in Rome (February 2008).
