The revealing role of modern religious architecture in São Paulo: fair-faced concrete finish in religious architecture and its symbology of the Sacred

Authors

  • Célia Maria Ribeiro PUC-SP
  • Donizete José Xavier PUC-SP

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.23925/1677-1222.2018vol19i1a3

Keywords:

Modern architecture. Brutalism. Sacred. Symbol. Ricouer

Abstract

This article aims at developing, based on Paul Ricoeur art hermeneutics, a fruitful dialogue with modern religious architecture, while questioning about its revealing role towards the Sacred. The fair-faced concrete finish, known as brutalist art, has here a total claim. Poetic and metaphorical aspects constitute its symbology, so, we attest the fair-faced concrete finish as poetic-symbolic space per se. Hence, we emphasize that the subtle equilibrium found at the iconoclastic virtualities of these modern temples and the symbolic reemergence from the Sacred follow an essential role in São Paulo modern religious architecture.

Author Biographies

Célia Maria Ribeiro, PUC-SP

Doutora em Ciência da Religião (PUC-SP).

Donizete José Xavier, PUC-SP

Doutor em Teologia Fundamental (PUG-Roma). Docente do PPG em Teologia da PUC-SP

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Published

2019-05-09

Issue

Vol. 19 No. 1 (2019): Religio e suas arquiteturas

Section

Seção Temática

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