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An Italian architect, theorist, historian and professor, Paolo Portoghesi specializes in teaching and researching Baroque architecture, and in particular Borromini and Michaelangelo. 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 Neo-Liberty style. It is also evident in his concern for the studies of nature, brought to the fore in his more recent book Nature and Architecture. He is a former editor of the journal Controspazio and former dean of architecture at the Polytechnic University of Milan.