Paolo Portoghesi

Paolo Portoghesi ( born November 2, 1931 in Rome, Italy ) is an Italian architect, theorist, historian and professor. He is considered an important representative of practicing and theoretical pioneer of postmodern architecture.

Life and work

Portoghesi studied architecture at the Faculty of Architecture at the University of Rome until the year 1957. He began as a teacher of the history of criticism at the same faculty in 1961. In 1964 Portoghesi opened a joint architectural office with the architect and civil engineer Vittorio Gigliotti in Rome.

Paolo Portoghesi was a professor of architecture at the University La Sapienza in Rome. He was President of the architectural section of the Venice Biennale, 1979-1992, editor of the magazine Controspazio 1969 to 1983 and Dean of the Faculty of Architecture at the Polytechnic of Milan from 1968 until 1978.

In 1972 he was developed with a model made ​​of wood, plexiglass, cardboard and steel and 30 drawings for, together with Vittorio Gigliotti, planning for the utopian city Dikaia: Dikaia the city after the 3rd Industrial Revolution participants Documenta 5 in Kassel in the department Parallel visual worlds: utopia and planning.

Portoghesi employed in teaching and research with the classical architecture, particularly the baroque architecture, especially with Francesco Borromini and Michelangelo. His interest in contemporary architecture coincided with the architectural aspirations, for example, by Bruno Zevi, both strove for a more organic form of modern architecture. Their designs show echoes of the work of Victor Horta and Frank Lloyd Wright, and Italy to neorealism.

Portoghesis and Gigliotti's Casa Baldi in Rome from 1959 is regarded as an early example of postmodern architecture. At the Venice Biennale in 1980 Portoghesi organized an exhibition on post-modern architecture under the title: The Presence of the Past. This exhibition, which has been shown by the reduction in Paris and San Francisco, managed to present a synthesis of the then existing different streams of postmodern architecture. The exhibition was a daily audience success with more than 2,000 visitors. Although the technical discussion was controversial, the exhibition provoked a wealth of publications on the subject. It is regarded as the birth of a comprehensive theoretical treatment of post-modern architecture.

This setting Portoghesi pursued in his entire career, and is clearly visible in its own architecture. It is also evident in his efforts to the study of nature, set forth in the publication of his latest book " Nature and Architecture" ( 2000).

Structures and Projects

(Selection)

  • Casa Baldi, Rome ( 1959)
  • Casa Andreis, 1964-67, reeds, Italy
  • Casa Bevilacqua, Rome ( 1964)
  • Opera of Cagliari, (1965, project design), Cagliari, Italy
  • Casa Papanice, Rome ( 1966)
  • Utopian City design Dikaia: Dikaia that city after the third industrial revolution (1969 ) (Project)
  • Chiesa della Sacra Famiglia ( Church of the Holy Family ) ( 1969-73 ), Salerno, Italy
  • The Grand Hotel, Khartoum, Sudan ( 1972-73 )
  • Court, Amman, Jordan (1973 )
  • Mosque of Rome (1974-1977), Rome
  • Academy of Fine Arts, L' Aquila ( 1978-82 )
  • ENEL Condominium, Tarquinia (1981 )
  • Tegel residence, IBA Berlin, ( 1984-88 )
  • Le terme di Montecatini, Pistoia (1987 )
  • Politeama Theatre, Catanzaro (1988 )
  • The garden and library of Calcata (1990 )
  • La Piazza Leon Battista Alberti, Rimini ( 1990)
  • Church of Santa Maria della Pace, Terni ( 1997)
  • Great Mosque, Strasbourg (2000)
  • Rinascimento nel Parco Talentiil district, Rome ( 2001)
  • The Montpellier Gardens ( Lattes ), France
  • Central American Parliament, Esquipulas, Guatemala
  • Primavera Restaurant, Moscow
  • City Hall Square, Pirmasens
  • Headquarters of the Royalties Institute, St. Peter 's College, Oxford
  • Public square, Shanghai, People's Republic of China ( 2006)
  • Cimitero Nuovo di Cesena, 2011

Literature and sources

  • Exhibition catalog: documentation fifth survey of reality - imagery today; Catalog (as folders ) Volume 1: (material); Volume 2: ( list of exhibits ); Kassel in 1972
  • Documenta Archiv (ed. ); Resubmission d5 - A survey of the archive to the documenta, 1972; Kassel / Ostfildern 2001, ISBN 3-7757-1121- X
  • Jencks, Charles: The language of postmodern architecture - creation and development of an alternative tradition; Stuttgart 1988 ISBN 3-421-02940-7
  • Portoghesi, Paolo: finale of modern architecture: from devastation to the new sensibility; Zurich 1983 ISBN 3-7608-8114-9
  • Portoghesi, Paolo Francesco Borromini - builders of the Roman Baroque; Stuttgart, Zurich 1977 ISBN 3-7630-1666- X
  • Portoghesi, Paolo ( Mitverf. ); Quattrocchi, Luca ( Mitverf. ); Quilici, Folco ( Mitverf. ): Arte floreale: elements of beauty in Baroque and Art Nouveau; Berlin 1988 ISBN 3-549-05852-7
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