Title & Author:

Vatican chapels : Holy See Pavilion 2018 / edited by Francesco Dal Co.

Edition:

First edition.

Publication:

Milan : Electaarchitecture, May 2018.

Description:

369 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 22 x 25 cm

Notes:
Subtitle from back cover.
Published in conjunction with the Holy See Pavilion at the 16th International Architectural Exhibition, Venice, Italy, 2018.
Curators of the Holy See Pavilion: Francesco Dal Co, Micol Forti.
Includes bibliographical references.

Summary:

On the occasion of Holy See's first participation in the Venice Architecture Biennale, for the 16th International Architecture Exhibition (26 May-25 November 2018), Electaarchitettura is publishing the catalogue of the Pavilion of the Holy See, VATICAN CHAPELS, on the island of San Giorgio Maggiore. The project, curated by Francesco Dal Co, is inspired by the Skogskapellet, the Chapel in the woods that the celebrated architect Erik Gunnar Asplund built starting in 1918 in the Stockholm Cemetery. To this small but highly eloquent masterpiece is devoted an exhibition space at the opening of the path displaying the model -- made for the occasion -- and reproductions of the original drawings. The theme of a chapel as a place of orientation, meeting, mediation and greeting -- as Gunnar Asplund called it -- was proposed to ten architects from different backgrounds and bearers of the most diverse experiences, invited to design and build as many chapels in the tree-lined area at the end of the Venetian island of San Giorgio Maggiore. Like Asplund's Skogskapellet, the chapels that make up the Holy See Pavilion are also isolated and embodied in a completely abstract natural environment, characterized only by its emergence from the lagoon and its opening onto the water, a further metaphor of the peregrination of life. Vatican Chapels is thus a composite and widespread Pavilion, which can be walked through in stages on a journey that is, at the same time, a sort of spiritual pilgrimage, not just religious but also secular. The catalogue edited by Francesco Dal Co, with texts by Gianfranco Ravasi, Francesco Dal Co and Elisabetta Molteni, documents in detail the whole process of designing and creating the Holy See Pavilion. Previously unpublished sketches, project drawings, photographs of the completed sites and chapels, as well as a photo shoot by Alessandra Chemollo and Ginevra Formentini, enable us to retrace the steps of this ambitious project.-- Publisher's website.

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ISBN:

8891820253 (pbk.)
9788891820259 (pbk.)
9788891820204
8891820202

Subject:

Asplund, Erik Gunnar, 1885-1940 Criticism and interpretation Exhibitions.
Asplund, Erik Gunnar, 1885-1940.
Chapels Italy San Giorgio Maggiore Island Exhibitions.
Church architecture History 21st century Exhibitions.
Buildings, Temporary Italy San Giorgio Maggiore Island Exhibitions.
Architecture chrétienne Histoire 21e siècle Expositions.
k Exhibition v publications.
Buildings.
Buildings, Temporary.
Chapels.
Church architecture.
San Giorgio Maggiore Island (Italy) Buildings, structures, etc. Exhibitions.
Vatican City Exhibitions.
Vatican City.
Italy San Giorgio Maggiore Island.

Form/genre:

exhibition catalogs.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Exhibition catalogs.
History.
Catalogues d'exposition.

Added entries:

Dal Co, Francesco, 1945- editor, curator.
Forti, Micol. curator.
International Architectural Exhibition (16th : 2018 : Venice, Italy)

Holdings:

Location: Library main 300793
Call No.: BIB 247050
Status: Available