Lapo Binazzi
Lapo Binazzi was born in Florence in 1943. He studied architecture in the 1960s, and in that context he founded in 1967 (with Foresi, Maschietto, Bachi and Cammeo) UFO, a group that was part of the experimental climate of radical architecture, with which he participated in numerous international exhibitions such as the 14th Milan Triennale (1968), the Paris Biennale (1971), Contemporanea in Rome (1974) and the Venice Biennale (1978). In 1973 Binazzi was one of the founders of Global Tools, a laboratory for experimental architecture, with UFO.
Following his experience with UFO, Binazzi continued his activity as an architect-artist-designer, taking part in numerous exhibitions such as Alchimia in Florence (1981), Documenta 8 in Kassel (1987) and Il Dolce Stil Novo della Casa in Florence (1991). In 1975 he founded an atelier-workshop for architectural objects where he made several models of lamps on his own. Parallel to his other activities, he also worked as an interpreter, made films and videotapes, wrote for Domus and Modo, and organised a workshop at the Architectural Association in London in 1981-82. Considering design as a phenomenon of pure communication, his research focuses on the attempt to make artistic experience coincide with experimentation in design itself.
