In a room full of people of all ages and backgrounds, Alessandro Mendini (Milan, 1931/2018), the last master of an unsurpassed generation of Italian design, spoke to young students, parents, aspiring designers, architects, professors, professionals and onlookers, revealing some important passages to read and understand his life’s work.
Architect, artist, designer, theorist and writer. Absolute protagonist of Italian design, Mendini has exerted with his works -and his words- an enormous influence on international design; a formidable tool to express the mood of modern man, who alternates happiness and discomfort.

In dialogue with Fulvio Irace, architectural historian and author of a recent volume dedicated to the master entitled Codice Mendini. Le regole per progettare (edited by Electa) and Vanni Pasca, director of the Design Department of Abadir Academy, Mendini retraced some of the key moments of his intellectual and design itinerary that brings us with clarity, desperation, optimism and a pinch of madness within the contradictions of an era.