Domus Academy

Domus Academy

Type	Private school
Established	1982
Location	Milan , Italy 45.4456°N 9.1744°E / 45.4456; 9.1744
Campus	via Carlo Darwin 20 20143 Milan
Website	domusacademy.com

Domus Academy is a private school of design in Milan, Italy. It offers post-graduate and professional courses in fashion, industrial design, and design management.[1]: 132  It is not listed by the Ministero dell'Istruzione, dell'Università e della Ricerca, the Italian ministry of education, among the institutions authorised to award degrees in music, dance and the arts.[2]

Domus Academy was founded in 1982 by the Mazzocchi family, owners of Editoriale Domus [it], which publishes Domus and Quattroruote magazines.[3] Maria Grazia Mazzocchi was president of the school.[3] Gianfranco Ferré was on the staff from 1983 to 1989,[4][5] and Andrea Branzi was cultural director for the first ten years.[3] In 2009 the school was bought by Laureate Education of Baltimore, Maryland for an estimated ten million euros.[3] In 2018 Laureate sold it to the French group Galileo Global Education.[6]

References

1. Ikujiro Nonaka, Toshihiro Nishiguchi (2000). Knowledge Emergence: Social, Technical, and Evolutionary Dimensions of Knowledge Creation. Oxford: Oxford University Press; ISBN 9780198029991.
2. Istituzioni autorizzate a rilasciare titoli di Alta Formazione Artistica, Musicale e Coreutica (art. 11 DPR 8.7.2005, n. 212) (in Italian). Ministero dell'Istruzione, dell'Università e della Ricerca: Alta Formazione Artistica, Musicale e Coreutica. Archived 18 December 2018.
3. Barbara Casavecchia, Anna Cirillo (13 January 2010). Le scuole gioiello del design vendute a un colosso americano (in Italian). La Repubblica. Accessed July 2016.
4. Maria-Vittoria Alfonsi (2008). Gianfranco Ferré. L'architetto stilista (in Italian). Milan: Baldini Castoldi Dalai. ISBN 9788860738905. Accessed July 2016.
5. Ferré Gianfranco 1944 - 2007 (in Italian). Archivi della moda del novecento. Ministero dei beni e delle attività culturali e del turismo. Sistema Archivistico Nazionale. Accessed July 2016.
6. Marta Casadei (23 November 2017). Moda, arte&design: a Milano il maxi-polo delle scuole (in Italian). Il Sole 24 Ore. Accessed May 2018.