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Church in the City of the Third Millennium By Christiano Rosponsi |
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The church building has the potential to set in motion an urban rescue.
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In recent years in Italy, all debate on the design of new churches has been focused almost exclusively on technical aspects. While the liturgical implications of church design were at times discussed, the field of sacred art was never brought into the mix. This, with the aid of a Vatican Council that assigned to architecture the task of creating new spaces required by a new liturgy, was all that was needed in an era of functionalist architecture to build churches conceived as mere containers, better to host the liturgical “functions” celebrated within. Today, the failure of such a functionalist approach to church design is patent. We can scarcely find a connection between the materials employed (such as exposed reinforced concrete and anodized aluminum) and the functional and typological experiments intrinsic to the floor plans of the new buildings, which are otherwise faithful to the legitimate intent of the Council...
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