Uffizi [SEP] architect
Patto di famiglia" negotiated by Anna Maria Luisa, the last Medici heiress. The Uffizi is one of the first modern museums. The gallery had been open to visitors by request since the sixteenth century, and in 1765 it was officially opened to the public, formally becoming a museum in 1865.
Today, the Uffizi is one of the most popular tourist attractions of Florence and one of the most visited art museums in the world.
History.
The building of Uffizi complex was begun by Giorgio Vasari in 1560
Andrea Maffei (architect)
Andrea Maffei is an Italian architect, born in Modena in 1968. He was associate director for the projects based in Italy by Arata Isozaki. Among these projects is the New exit for the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, which won first place in an international design competition launched in 1998. In 2005 he founded Andrea Maffei Architects, architecture office with headquarters in Brera (district of Milan), Italy. He is the co-designer with Isozaki of the New Town Library in Maranello, which was