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Isao Hosoe was born in Tokyo in 1942. He received a Bachelor of Science and a Master's degree in aerospace engineering at the Nihon University of Tokyo 1965/1967. In 1985 he founded Isao Hosoe Design.
He is professor of design at the Politecnico di Milano, the Domus Academy, the ISIA of Florence, the Istituto Europeo di Design of Cagliari, the University of Siena, the University "La Sapienza" off Rome and the I.U.A.V of Treviso, as well as visiting professor abroad. He has been a lecturer at various institutions, including I.S.I.A. of Firenze, Les Ateliers of Paris, Elisawa of Barcelona, RISD of Providence, the University of Lisbon and the University of Madrid.
He has won numerous international awards for his designs in the field of transport, office furniture, product design, telecommunications, electronics and domestic furniture, including the Compasso D'Oro, SMAU awards, the Biennial of Industrial Design at Ljubljana, a Gold Medal at the Triennale di Milano, Office Design Orgatechnik, and Forum Design, Milan, the Red Dot for High Design Quality, the IF awards for Design Innovation at the Design Zentrum Nordrhein Westfalen, Good Design Award Tokyo, awards from the I.D. Annual Design Review and The Good Design Award 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 (USA); in 1988 at the Itoki Gallery, Tokyo; in 1990 at the Seibu Creator's Gallery, Tokyo; and 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 organised the exhibition "Work Encounters: Domesticity in the Office" at the Triennale of Milan. Some of his works have been selected for the permanent collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the Centre Pompidou in Paris, The Chicago Athenaeum, the Museum of Science and Technology in Milan and the Triennale of Milan.
He is the co-author of the book "PLAYOFFICE", published in 1991 by the G.C. Press of Tokyo.
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