Chiese abbandonate, chiese invisibili, chiese resilienti: storie di architetture ecclesiali, tra conoscenza e rigenerazione

The essay highlights some crux of history and criticism of architecture concerning the destinies of underused, decommissioned and deconsecrated churches. The interpretation proposed in the paper follows a long-term processual perspective: the continued adaptivity of every Christian architecture is a founding element of the history of Christian architecture, an expression of communities, liturgies and cultures necessarily in transformation. The study of the architectures from the point of view of the client communities allows us to imagine different destinies for abandoned churches, thanks to a reactivation of diversified community stakeholders, who can propose sustainable and resilient projects and processes, in which the memory of the places is preserved, but in a dimension of regeneration of values and relational dynamics.