HOUSE BETWEEN HOUSES | Architecture of churches in Torino

The construction of new parish centers in the Torino of Cardinal Pellegrino (1965-1977) is an understudied chapter of holy architecture in Italy. Cornerstones of this story are the work of father Michele Pellegrino, the protagonist of the Second Vatican Council, then archbishop of Torino, and Toino itself, capital of Piedmont in the years of its climax of industrialization and urban expansion. The quantitative phenomenon, location and urgency of design of religious complexes are a consequence of the policy of city planning. They are places of worship whose morphology is not only the result of an architectural project, but the result of a comparison between the ecclesiastical and liturgical renewal with changes in the secular world. The book tells a story based not only on graphic and narrative evidences. The churches themselves are material evidence of a story that is repeated several times in the outskirts of Turin, and they are a mirror of the phenomenon of industrialization and urbanization manifest in the city of Torino in the ‘60 and ‘70 of the twentieth century.

The presentation of the book CASA TRA LE CASE | Architettura di chiese a Torino durante l’episcopato del cardinale Michele Pellegrino (1965-1977) (HOUSE BETWEEN HOUSES | Architecture of churches in Torino during the episcopate of Cardinal Michele Pellegrino (1965-1977), editor’s note) will be held on Thursday december 5th, at 6.00 pm, and among the host that will debate after the presentation (Carla Zito, architect, authoress, Giuseppe Varaldo, architect, don Paolo Tomatis, Director of the Liturgical Office, Archdiocese of Torino) there will be also Paolo Dellapiana, architect, ARCHICURA

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