The works of Alessandro Mendini, who has had more influence on the world of design at the end of the twentieth century than any other artist, straddle the arts and the ages. Universality and poetry characterize the multifaceted activity of this architect, designer and theorist of culture. Alessandro Mendini’s works have left a decisive mark on the most important stylistic phases in international design, such as radical design, Alchimia, the postmodern, the revival of kitsch and the banal and neo-Futurism...

The works of Alessandro Mendini, who has had more influence on the world of design at the end of the twentieth century than any other artist, straddle the arts and the ages. Universality and poetry characterize the multifaceted activity of this architect, designer and theorist of culture. Alessandro Mendini’s works have left a decisive mark on the most important stylistic phases in international design, such as radical design, Alchimia, the postmodern, the revival of kitsch and the banal and neo-Futurism.

His painting constitutes another original contribution that falls within the tradition of modern Italian art and his pictorial and poetic approach to architecture has produced buildings and settings in which the emotional element assumes greater significance than adherence to whatever style may be in vogue.

Aessandro Mendini among the Arts

Mendini’s Nightmare

Mendini in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction

From Synthesis to Contamination of the Arts

Mendini and Postmodern Culture

Reflections on Mendini’s Architecture

The Transformation of Rhetoric into Design

Messandro Mendini Painter, Architect, Designer and Cultural Theorist

Papa Ponti

Works and Projects 1970-2000

Appendices

Architecture

Exhibitions - Installations - Interiors

Design

Exhibitions of Painting

Bibliography

Biographies

Photograph Credits