An utopia made true

Two communities/Villaggio clients

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17979/aarc.2023.10.0.10185

Keywords:

church, neighborhood, community, parish priest, co-planning

Abstract

The diocese of Vicenza, at the turn of the 1950s and 1960s, in close relation to social and ecclesiastical events, saw the utopia of an enlightened patronage designing together with architects two parish communities understood as a village come true. In biblical and liturgical rootedness, attentive listening and courageous response to the changes in the city, the faithful, guided by the authority of Fr Gianfranco Sacchiero at Villaggio del Sole (Vicenza) and Fr Nilo Rigotto at Villaggio Giardino (Arzignano), opened a fruitful dialogue with the Designers entrusted with the task of constructing not only a building of worship but a renewed, and in many ways unprecedented, experience of Church. The analysis of written documentary sources, architectural sources and testimonies will show the inadequacy of an authorial interpretative paradigm (awarding the merit of the architectural outcome to the architect/master alone) and the need to borrow concepts such as nascent state and charisma from the social sciences and psychology.

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Author Biographies

  • Francesca Leto, Facoltà Teologica dell’Italia Centrale (Firenze, Italy)

    Francesca Leto graduated in architecture in Venice and obtained her PhD in theology with a specialisation in pastoral liturgy at the Institute of Pastoral Liturgy, St Giustina, Padua with a thesis on sacred space. Member of Consulta Nazionale Ufficio Liturgico CEI (Rome) and the Association of Liturgy Professors, she teaches at the Institute of Religious Sciences, Vicenza and at the Theological Faculty of Central Italy, Florence. She is the winner of the 6th edition of the CEI pilot project competition for the church of St. Ignazio in Olbia and the liturgical adaptation of the cathedral in Belluno. She has participated as an architect or liturgist in various competitions for new churches. She is involved in liturgical adaptations and restorations of churches and designing chapels. She is the author of volumes and various articles in journals, including international ones. She gives lectures and conferences in theological faculties and in various foundations.

  • Gaetano Adolfo Comiati, Pontificia Università della Santa Croce (Rome, Italy)

    Gaetano Comiati obtained his bachelor degree in Sacred Theology in 2001 in Vicenza. In 2005, he began a path of theological study that led him to a license in Sacred Theology with a specialisation in Pastoral Liturgy, Santa Giustina, Padua. The thesis discussed refers to the movement for modern architecture in the ecclesiastical field promoted in Bolonia by Cardinal Lercaro. Now a doctoral candidate at the Pontifical Institute Santa Croce, over the years he has gained considerable experience in the field of architecture for the liturgy, as a consultant for various design studios and as a consultant for the commissioning of various dioceses. For about 15 years he was a member of the cultural heritage commission of the diocese of Vicenza, former director of the Diocesan Institute of Sacred and Liturgical Music. He is a lecturer, publishes for various journals, and he is the author of some chapters in books.

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2023-12-16

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Vol. 10 (2023): The client. Strategies

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Leto, F., & Comiati, G. A. (2023). An utopia made true: Two communities/Villaggio clients. Actas de Arquitectura Religiosa Contemporánea, 10, 110-123. https://doi.org/10.17979/aarc.2023.10.0.10185