Architect and Founder, AMDL CIRCLE
Architect, designer and artist, Michele De Lucchi was one of the key players in the Alchimia and Memphis studios and head of Olivetti Design from 1988 to 2002. He is the designer of the world's best-selling lamp, the Tolomeo by Artemide, awarded the Compasso d'Oro in 1989. He has designed furniture for renowned Italian and European companies and has realized architectural projects all over the world in the cultural, business, industrial and residential fields.
In 2000, he was appointed an Officer della Repubblica Italiana by President Carlo Azeglio Ciampi and professor at the IUAV in Venice in 2001. In 2006, he received an honorary doctorate from Kingston University London. In 2008, he became a professor in the Department of Design at the Politecnico di Milano and a member of the Accademia Nazionale di San Luca in Rome. In 2018, he served as guest editor of Domus magazine. In 2022, he was honoured with the Compasso d’Oro Career Award. In 2024, he was appointed Academician at the Accademia delle Arti del Disegno in Florence and Officer of l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Ministry of Culture.
For over 20 years, he has drawn, painted and carved objects and models out of wood in his workshops in Milan and Angera, seeking the essential nature of the architectural form, providing a source of inspiration for his professional projects. In 2003, the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris acquired a substantial number of his works. Selections of his designs can be found in some of the most prestigious museums in Europe, the United States and Japan.
He is the founder of the multidisciplinary design studio AMDL CIRCLE, internationally renowned for its humanistic approach. AMDL CIRCLE works across many sectors, providing its clients with expressive and strategic projects that embrace architecture, interiors, design and graphics. It carries out ongoing research on the future of architecture and its responsibility in imagining projects that not only acknowledge change, but, where possible, inspire it.
Photo credit: Giovanni Gastel
