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Paolo Portoghesi’s postmodernist architecture: curves, Baroque and irony Paolo Portoghesi’s postmodernist architecture: curves, Baroque and irony A love affair with the Baroque, a playful sense of irony, a captivation with curves and a passion for patterns define the life and work of postmodernist Italian architect Paolo Portoghesi It took more than ten years to complete the Mosque of Rome, the city’s only Islamic temple ‘Do you know that I’ve always been rather fascinated by wallpaper?’ says Paolo Portoghesi gently, almost as if trying to break the ice. The 89-year-old architect, historian, poet, designer and mercurial icon of modern Italian culture shares a house with wife Giovanna in Calcata, a medieval hilltop town near Rome that has, in recent years, been repopulated by artists. The interiors feature a lot of wallpaper, mostly in patterns by William Morris, covering what empty wall space there is in the various libraries, studies, nooks and awkward anterooms. Ev

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