Paolo Portoghesi

Architecture between History, Politics and Media

Silvia Micheli, Léa-Catherine Szacka (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

232 Seiten

2025
Bloomsbury Visual Arts (Verlag)
978-1-350-40861-6 (ISBN)

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Through the work of the Italian architect, theorist and historian Paolo Portoghesi (1931-2023), this book offers a new perspective on postmodern architecture, showing the agency of other spheres of knowledge – history, politics and media – in the making of postmodern architectural discourse.

It explores how Portoghesi’s personal “postmodern project” was based on the triangulation of a renewed interest in historical architectural language, unprecedented use of media and intertwined links between architecture and politics. Organized in a sequence of critical chapters supported by the analysis of Portoghesi’s most significant architectural projects – including Casa Baldi (1959), The Mosque in Rome (1975–95) and his Strada Novissima exhibition (1980) – and publications, the book unfolds around the three main themes of history, politics and media.

Published as part of the Bloomsbury Studies in Modern Architecture series, which brings to light the work of significant yet overlooked modernist architects, the study features previously-unpublished archival material, interviews by the authors and articles from professional and mainstream press to present Portoghesi in his multifaceted role of mediator, politician, historian and designer.

Silvia Micheli is a senior lecturer at The University of Queensland, Australia Léa-Catherine Szacka is an architect, writer and Senior Lecturer in Architectural Studies at the University of Manchester, UK

List of illustrations
Series preface
Acknowledgements

INTRODUCTION
Italian postmodern architecture revisited
State of the art
Methodology and sources
Structure
Setting the scene

1 THE POSTMODERN PROJECT
Impresario of postmodern architecture
Choosing Rossi
Mendini and the Banal
Ideological duel with Tafuri
Beyond Italy
Galleria Apollodoro, a centre for Roman culture

2 TURN TO HISTORY
Architect as historian/historian as architect
Neoliberty polemic
Instrumental value of the past
Technique of lap dissolves
Geometria borrominiana
Casa Baldi, or the rehabilitation of the curve

3 SOCIALISM FOR FREEDOM
Rise and leadership of the PSI
Years of the protests
Craxismo and the end of prohibitionism
Staging the PSI
Control over the lagoon
The Mosque of Rome, between religion and oil

4 EMBRACING MASS MEDIA
Mediatization of the building
Ars oratoria
Through the pages of the magazines
Architecture on the dance floor
From movie protagonist to stage set
Casa Papanice framed by the camera

EPILOGUE
1992 Annus horribilis
Retreat to Calcata

CODA
By Maristella Casciato

Notes
Bibliography
Index: Paolo’s world

Erscheint lt. Verlag	26.6.2025
Reihe/Serie	Bloomsbury Studies in Modern Architecture
Zusatzinfo	75 bw illus
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Technik ► Architektur
ISBN-10	1-350-40861-1 / 1350408611
ISBN-13	978-1-350-40861-6 / 9781350408616
Zustand	Neuware