Type | Private school |
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Established | 1982 |
Location | Milan , Italy 45°26′44″N 9°10′28″E / 45.4456°N 9.1744°E |
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Website | domusacademy |
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 , 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]