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 Hosoe Hisao / portrait / 2008  previous next 
Born in Tokyo in 1942. Bachelor of Science (1965) and Master of Science (1967) in Aerospace Engineering from the Nihon University of Tokyo. He has been living in Milan since 1967 where he collaborated with Arch. Alberto Rosselli of the Studio Ponti-Fornaroli-Rosselli till 1974. In 1985 he founded the "ISAO HOSOE DESIGN". He is Member of A.D.I. (Italian Association of Industrial Designers), of S.I.E. (Italian Society of Ergonomics), of the Japan Design Committee and of the Japan Interior Design Forum. He has been professor of Industrial Design at Politecnico in Milan, at IUAV in Venice, at University "La Sapienza" in Rome and at I.S.I.A. in Florence. He has been a lecturer in different institutes: Domus Academy Milan, University of Siena, Les Ateliers Paris, Elisawa Barcelona, RISD Providence, University of Madrid, University Lisboa etc. He received numerous prizes such as Compasso d' Oro '70, '79, '98, '05, SMAU, the Biennial of Industrial Design at Lubiana, a Gold Medal at the Triennale di Milano, Office Design Orgatechnik '88, Forum Design, Milan '88, the Red Dot for High Design Quality, the IF awards Design Innovations at the Design Zentrum Nordrhein Westfalen, Good Design Award Tokyo '88, awards from the I.D. Annual Design Review '95, '96 and The Good Design Award '95, '96, '00, '05 at the Chicago Athenaeum. Isao Hosoe has had five personal exhibitions: in 1983 at the Design Gallery, Matsuya, Tokyo; in 1987 at the Design Concern Gallery, Seattle (U.S.A.); in 1988 at the Itoki Gallery, Tokyo; in 1990 at the Seibu Creator's Gallery, Tokyo; in 1990 at the Design Gallery, Matsuya, Tokyo. He has also participated in numerous collective exhibitions in Italy and abroad. In April 1990 with the Domus Academy, he organized the exhibition "Work Encounters: Domesticity in the Office" held at the Triennale of Milan. Some of his works have been selected for permanent collections at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, at The Chicago Athenaeum, at the Museum of Science and Technology in Milan and at the Triennale in Milan. Coauthor of the book "PLAYOFFICE", published in 1991 by the G.C. Press of Tokyo.
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