Paolo Portoghesi is remembered for work that changed how the next generation built.
The record lists Paolo Portoghesi as Italian architect (1931-2023).
Paolo Portoghesi was born in 1931. His recorded nationality is Kingdom of Italy.
Post-war architecture built at state scale: housing, new towns and civic megastructures, with results that are still being judged.
Of all the arts, architecture is the one whose failures are hardest to remove.
That the work was built in Kingdom of Italy shaped it: climate, materials, planning law and who holds the budget all decide what can actually be built.
Paolo Portoghesi died in 2023, aged 92. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
