#Giovanni Michelucci

[architectureofdoom]

Chiesa di Santa Maria Immacolata, Longarone, Giovanni Michelucci, 1966-82

[germanpostwarmodern]

Church “San Giovanni Battista” (1960-64) in Firenze, Italy, by Giovanni Michelucci. Photo by Paolo Monti.

[claudiaciardiautrice]

Light shapes space. The human sense of space is not stable. […] The perception of space is dynamic, connected to the action. The unexpected enters Brunelleschi as a positive contribution to the spatial game.

La luce modella lo spazio. Il senso umano dello spazio non è stabile. [...] La percezione dello spazio è dinamica, connessa all'azione. L'imprevisto entra in Brunelleschi come positivo contributo al gioco spaziale.

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The structure, the space become psychological extensions. Space in Brunelleschi meets the crowd, acquiring the word, while matter loses its weight. In his projects we observe the transition from the institutional sacred to the widespread sacred.

La struttura, lo spazio divengono estensioni psicologiche. Lo spazio in Brunelleschi incontra la folla, acquistando la parola, mentre la materia perde il proprio peso. Nei suoi progetti si osserva il passaggio dal sacro istituzionale al sacro diffuso.

Reflections resulting from the book by Giovanni Michelucci, "Brunelleschi magician", Tellini, Pistoia-Florence, 1972

[supersimetria]

(vía Giovanni Michelucci, Palazzo del Monte dei Paschi di Siena, Colle Val d'Elsa (1973-1983))

[braidedgraphite]

Frantisek Kupka, Giovanni Michelucci

[krisjonsvanberg]

Firenze Santa Maria Novella

Railway Station Firenze Italy

Giovanni Michelucci Architetto

[paoloferrario]

FERRARIO PAOLO, GEROSA FRANCO, VALLI DARIO, L’Ospedale psichiatrico di Como: restauro di una forma o ripistino di una funzione?, in La Nuova Città, Quaderni della Fondazione Giovanni Michelucci, dicembre 1985, pp. 83-93

vai al blog mappeser.com: FERRARIO PAOLO, GEROSA FRANCO, VALLI DARIO, L’Ospedale psichiatrico di Como: restauro di una forma o ripistino di una funzione?, in La Nuova Città, Quaderni della Fondazione Giovanni Michelucci, dicembre 1985, pp. 83-93

[darquitectura]

Giovanni Michelucci; Església de Santa Maria Immacolata (1975-83),  Longarone, Vèneto

[conformi]

Gruppo Toscano, Firenze Santa Maria Novella railway station, Florence, Italy, 1932-1934 VS Tomoharu Katsumata, Arcadia of My Youth, 1982

[momamama]

[architectureofdoom]

Chiesa del Sacro Cuore Immacolato (Church of the Sacred Heart Immaculate), Pistoia, Giovanni Michelucci, 1961. Photo by Roberto Conte.

[germanpostwarmodern]

The history of postwar church architecture surely would have been significantly different if it weren’t for two things: Le Corbusier’s Ronchamp chapel and the Second Vatican Council. Both unleashed an unprecedented creativity on the part of architects and church officials with regard to form and layout.

In 2018 photographer Jamie McGregor Smith moved to Vienna and experienced the Wotruba Church, admittedly one of the most fascinating brutalist churches. This experience nurtured his desire to discover more of these kinds of modern churches and to get behind the dichotomy of an anti-modern institution and the modern church architecture. The result is “Sacred Modernity - The Holy Embrace of Modernist Architecture”, recently published by Hatje Cantz. The book collects outstanding examples of modernist church architecture from Germany, Austria, Italy, England and Poland, with each church being presented from inside and out. The impressive selection of buildings shows the ingenious spirit with which architects approached the task: audacious concrete constructions, expressive load-bearing structures and a great variety of plans that also tell of the different liturgical requirements established by the parishes. Beyond obvious examples like Gottfried Böhm’s Neviges Pilgrimage Church or Giovanni Michelucci’s Santa Maria Immacolata Jamie McGregor Smith also photographed a number of little-known gems outside metropolitan areas. The churches are organized along characterizing theological terms, a very interesting approach that adds moments of reflection to a visually stunning book.

With that said “Sacred Modernity” deserves nothing less than an enthusiastic recommendation for anyone fascinated with the multi-sensory experience modern churches are capable of providing. A real treat!

[claudiaciardiautrice]

Light shapes space. The human sense of space is not stable. [...] The perception of space is dynamic, connected to the action. The unexpected enters Brunelleschi as a positive contribution to the spatial game. Reflections resulting from the book by Giovanni Michelucci, "Brunelleschi magician", Tellini, Pistoia-Florence, 1972

[bekaem]

Santa Maria Novella Station, Florenz

[straccitemporanei]

Giovanni Michelucci, Bruno Sacchi, Banca del Monte dei Paschi di Siena, Colle Val d’Elsa, Siena; progetto: 1973 - costruzione: 1983

foto:  ©straccitemporanei 

sezione: http://www.architetturatoscana.it/at2011/scheda.php?scheda=SI09

pianta: https://twitter.com/about_buildings/status/1071748272149200896

[elarafritzenwalden]

Chiesa della Beata Maria Vergine Larderello - Pisa, Tuscany, Italy; 1956-59

Giovanni Michelucci, Ivo Tagliaventi (photographs by Civilini)

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via “Informes de la Construcción: Volume 12, 120" (1960)