Architecture of the university chapels: The Italian case study

Flavia Radice

doi:10.17979/aarc.2013.3.0.5099

Authors

Flavia Radice Politecnico di Torino

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17979/aarc.2013.3.0.5099

Keywords:

chapel, university, liturgy, pastoral action, Italy

Abstract

University chapels are evangelization outposts offering the possibility to give evidence on the presence of the Church in places otherwise not reached from the ordinary pastoral action. In most Italian campuses there is no place for worship. Indeed, Italy presents a variegated phenomenology of university buildings and related chapels, understandable looking at their history. The liturgical problem arises noting that university chapels are places of particular relationship with the sacraments, great invitation to meditation and occasions of architectural experimentation. Helped by some international examples, this search means to enrich the historiographical and critical outline of the architecture-liturgy connection.

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Author Biography

Flavia Radice, Politecnico di Torino

Flavia Radice was born in Novara April 12, 1988. In 2007 she obtained a Bachelor degree of History and Conservation of Architectural and Environmental Heritage at the Polytechnic of Turin. In 2012 she obtained the Master Degree of Architecture for the Restoration and Enhancement of the Heritage with the thesis The architecture of the university chapels: cities, spaces, liturgy (dir. Arch. Andrea Longhi). Interested in the ecclesiastical heritage, in 2012 she attended the seminar Liturgy and architectural space. From ritual to project promoted by the Italian Bishops Conference. Currently attending the Cultural Heritage PhD at the Polytechnic of Turin (Interuniversity Department of Regional and Urban Studies and Planning), in May 2013 she took part in a restoration workshop on the church of San Rocco in Ameno and in September she participated to the Ninth International Young Scholars Conference on Heritage (Leuven) with a paper on the deconsecrated churches of Pavia.

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