Domus Academy is a private school of design in

Milan, Italy Milan ( , , Lombard language, Lombard: ; it, Milano ) is a city in northern Italy, capital of Lombardy, and the List of cities in Italy, second-most populous city proper in Italy after Rome. The city proper has a population of about 1.4 ...

. It offers post-graduate and professional courses in fashion,

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, and

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. 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. Domus Academy was founded in 1982 by the Mazzocchi family, owners of , which publishes ''Domus'' and ''

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'' magazines. Maria Grazia Mazzocchi was president of the school.

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was on the staff from 1983 to 1989, and

Andrea Branzi Andrea Branzi (, born November 30, 1938) is a Florence-born Italian architect and designer. He currently lives and works in Milan and was a professor and chairman of the School of Interior Design at the Polytechnic University of Milan until 2009. ...

was cultural director for the first ten years. In 2009 the school was bought by

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for an estimated ten million euros. In 2018 Laureate sold it to the British Galileo Global Education group.

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