The National Academy of San Luca, for the 19th Day of the Contemporary promoted by AMACI (Association of Italian Museums of Contemporary Art), is organizing guided tours of the permanent exhibition of drawings, canvases and three-dimensional models of works by architect Maurizio Sacripanti relating to some of the Roman architect's most important projects: the Peugeot Skyscraper in Buenos Aires (1961); the Teatro Lirico in Cagliari (1965); the Offices of the Chamber of Deputies in Rome (1966); and the Italian Pavilion at the Expo '70 Universal Exposition in Osaka, all granted by Sacripanti's heirs on a 10-year loan for use to the National Academy of San Luca.

At the same time it will be possible to visit the exhibition "di Paolo Portoghesi. Sguardo, parole, fotografie" dedicated to the architect - historian and critic of architecture, academic since 1966 and President of the Academy in 2013-2014, a prominent figure and indispensable reference for international architectural culture - who recently passed away. The first in a series of events that the Academy intends to dedicate to him, the exhibition focuses on what would characterize and constantly trace his entire life: a passionate and intense writing composed when he was only sixteen years old, Paolo Portoghesi: by Francesco Borromini (reproduced in part in the catalog and from which the exhibition title is taken) and a selection from the immense archive of studio photographs taken by Portoghesi beginning in the mid-1960s for his first critical investigation of Francesco Borromini, architecture and the Baroque city. Seventy-two of the photographs on display, taken from negatives in 6x6 format and rigorously in black and white, predominantly of works by Francesco Borromini: the church of Sant'Ivo alla Sapienza, San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane, San Giovanni in Laterano, the Casa dei Filippini, Sant'Agnese in Agone, Palazzo Falconieri, the Collegio di Propaganda Fide, and the church of Sant'Andrea delle F