Architettare per innovare. Innovare per conservare. Ideologia e pressi per l'edilizia sacra di secondo Novecento

The complex issue of sacred architecture of the twentieth century is the season of reconstruction after the Second World War one of the most important and profitable to be able to conduct operational reflection on the themes of modernity and formal updating of sacred spaces. The experiments and the discussion of time this season, which extends for about twenty years (1947-1967) constitute the basic argument of this book, which tries to highlight passages nodal paradigmatic experiences and unresolved cases of the sacred building before to the spring bloom of the Spirit represented by Vatican II. The close connections between the restoration project and the scratch space of worship are addressed further argument from the book, in this way, also documents a non circumvention of the relationship with the project tout court that, frequently, the reflection on conservation seems to want to escape.