Theme of this paper is the form of 20th century’s architecture for Catholic worship, before the Second Vatican Council, in some european Countries. We don’t talk about a typical modern church, wich is referred to an ideological program, a...
moreTheme of this paper is the form of 20th century’s architecture for Catholic worship, before the Second Vatican Council, in some european Countries. We don’t talk about a typical modern church, wich is referred to an ideological program, a rule of expression or, simply, to a supposed historical evolution, but we read, in an objective and focused way, the process that the building of worship space makes, in the modernity, its relationship with liturgical act explicit. The text aims to show as much as is necessary to know the nature and the history of what we are called up to study and conceive. It is a way among buildings by admirable, passionate, and often unsung architects, which fully express the timeless need of an architecture that arranges fundamental signs do not requiring additional themes, because, in it, the constructive action reminds the originating structure and the symbol is inherent in the matter itself, shaped by spirit.
