Franco Antonelli and Siro Silvestri

The Architect and the Client in an Italian Diocese (Foligno, Umbria, 1955-75)

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https://doi.org/10.17979/aarc.2024.11.11184

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client, Franco Antonelli, Siro Silvestri, Umbría

Abstract

The objective of this paper is to investigate the peculiar and innovative features of the design activity of architect Franco Antonelli in the Umbrian territory during the period 1955-75. As an architect, Antonelli possessed a sophisticated, innovative, and experimental personality, positively influenced by his enduring collaboration with Bishop Siro Silvestri. Several factors contributed to creating a productive and innovative partnership between them, which lasted nearly 15 years. Silvestri was a Conciliar father who believed in the radical renovation that the Liturgical Constitution could bring. Antonelli, instead, was a Catholic intellectual supporting the new relationship between liturgy and sacred space. The case study of the diocese of Foligno appears as an illuminating land of experimentation. By examining the realized parish centers, this paper reveals a novel Italian context in which the decision-making process was shaped by liturgical pastoral care and urban procedures, combined with innovative architectural practices.

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Carla Zito, Politecnico di Torino

Carla Zito (Naples, Italy, 1978). Architect, Ph.D. in “History of Architecture and Town Planning” at the Polytechnic of Turin. Now she is a teacher of History of Art in a High school. About her research, she had a Post-doctoral fellowship researcher about the relationship between Architecture and Liturgy in Turin and she was a speaker in different International Congress about contemporary religious architecture. She wrote the book: Casa tra le case. Architettura di chiese a Torino durante l’episcopato del cardinal Michele Pellegrino (1965-77), Effatà, 2013 and differents articles about religious architecture on specialised books and Magazines. She has been in the team, coordinated by Massimiliano Valdinoci, for design for the liturgical adaptation of Cremona Cathedral (2022) and Cuneo (2017). She is a member of Commission of Sacred Art of the Diocese of Turin and collaborate with Diocese to different projects.

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2024-09-12

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Zito, C. (2024). Franco Antonelli and Siro Silvestri: The Architect and the Client in an Italian Diocese (Foligno, Umbria, 1955-75). Actas De Arquitectura Religiosa Contemporánea, 11, 22–33. https://doi.org/10.17979/aarc.2024.11.11184

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