The church of Longuelo designed by Pino Pizzigoni. An unknown example of outstanding structure

Abstract

This paper presents a critical study of the church of Longuelo, Italy, designed in 1966 by Giuseppe (Pino) Pizzigoni (1901-1967), an Italian architect who lived and worked in the city of Bergamo. He began his studies on shell structures in the Fifties and many of his buildings show outstanding skills in conceiving and handling complex structures. The church is one of his most interesting works: it is divided in four identical free parts, each composed by four shells joined by a fifth one, supported by twenty one bars which realize an statically-determinate spatial frame resulting in an outstanding inner space.