Evoking the Tradition

Architectural Reflections from a Latin American Experience

Abstract

This paper provides a contribution on the problem of the new churches to be built in the slums of Latin American megacities, where many rural communities who would like to build new churches come, but with the same forms of those left in their old villages. Here’s the problem: how to design new churches that are, in the future, consistent with a modern city and at the same time, to evoke the emotions of the long religious traditions of peoples that indigenous poverty has forced break.