Chiesa parrocchiale della Resurrezione di Nostro Signore Gesù Cristo

Chiesa parrocchiale della Resurrezione di Nostro Signore Gesù Cristo stands in Milan’s Vialba II neighbourhood, among residential buildings. Benvenuto Villa completed this church in 1963, during the city’s rapid expansion. Reinforced concrete forms strong plastic shapes, while a parabolic copper roof rises above the circular plan. Curved walls create a fluid interior that contrasts with the surrounding buildings’ straight, orthogonal lines.

Obliquely placed windows direct daylight towards the presbytery, leaving the congregation in gentle penumbra. Large skylights add coloured light effects across the interior. Mario Rudelli’s Pietà uses Vicenza marble, and six terracotta panels by the same artist depict the Stations of the Cross. A painting by Father Ambrogio Fumagalli was intended for a stained-glass window that was never made. Outside, a seventeenth-century column stands beside the church, perhaps once supporting a cross.