Paolo Portoghesi

Paolo Portoghesi (2 November 1931 – 30 May 2023) was an Italian architect, theorist, historian, and professor of architecture at the Sapienza University of Rome.

Portoghesi opened an architectural practice with architect-engineer Vittorio Gigliotti (born 1921) in Rome in 1964.

His first project was an interior design commission for an office building of ENPAS in Pistoia and its headquarters in Lucca.

He taught at the Politecnico di Milano’s School of Architecture from 1967 until he became its dean from 1968 to 1976.

[3] 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 neorealism and the Liberty style.