Paolo
Portoghesi (born 2 No­vem­ber
1931, Rome) is an Italian architect, theorist, historian and professor of architecture at the University La Sapienza in Rome. He is a former President of
the architectural section of the Venice Biennale , Editor-in-chief of the journal,
and dean of the Faculty of Architecture at the Politico DI Milan university.

Porticoes studied architecture at the Faculty of Architecture at the University of Rome, completing his studies in
1957. He began teaching the history of criticism at the same faculty in
1961. Por­togh­esi opened an architectural practice with architect-engineer Vit­to­rio
Gigliotti.

He has specialized in teaching and researching Classical
architecture, especially Baroque architecture,
and in particularity Borromini, but also Michelangelo. His interest in more contemporary architecture coincided largely
with that of his colleague in Rome, Bruno Zevi, in championing a more organic form of modernism, evident in,
for instance, the work of Victor Horta and Frank Lloyd Wright, and in Italy with Neo-realism and the
Neo-Liberty style. This attitude has continued throughout Portuguese’s career,
and is clearly visible in his own architecture.
It is also evident in his concern for the studies of nature,
brought to the fore in his more recent book Nature
and Architecture (2000).

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