Research Project and Scientific Committee

XIVth International Liturgical Conference
SEEN FROM OUTSIDE
The exterior of churches
Monastery of Bose
National Office for the Cultural Patrimony of the Church — Italian Bishops’ Conference
National Council of Architects, Planners, Landscapists, and Conservators

Bose, 2–4 June 2016

The XIVth International Liturgical Conference will be held at the Monastery of Bose (Magnano BI) from Thursday, 2 June, to Saturday, 4 June, 2016. The Conference, organized by the Monastery of Bose and the National Office for the Cultural Patrimony of the Church — Italian Bishops’ Conference, in collaboration with the National Council of Architects, will be dedicated to the theme: SEEN FROM OUTSIDE, the exterior of churches.

The International Liturgical Conference of Bose, now in its fourteenth year, is an annual gathering, in which scholars and experts from various countries discuss themes relating to the relation between liturgy, architecture, and art, offering thus a place of common reflection, in the desire to appreciate fully the value of liturgical space and of Christian art, to the public present, composed of architects, theologians, artists, those in charge of diocesan liturgical offices, of the Church’s cultural patrimony, of construction for places of worship, teachers and students of faculties of architecture.

 
Scientific committee:
Enzo Bianchi (Bose)
Valerio Pennasso (Roma)
Emanuele Borsotti (Bose)
Goffredo Boselli (Bose)
François Cassingena-Trévedy (Paris)
Bert Daelemmans (Madrid)
Albert Gerhards (Bonn)
Angelo Lameri (Roma)
Andrea Longhi (Torino)
Keith Pecklers (New York - Roma).