in_bo is an open-access online journal, founded in 2008 and based in Bologna, Italy. It publishes yearly issues on architectural design, architectural history and urban studies, with a specific attention to the teaching of architecture and the intersections between architecture, culture, and society. Double blind peer-reviewed research papers can be in Italian or English. Since 2016, in_bo is rated as a "classe A" journal by ANVUR (Italian National Agency for the Evaluation of Universities and Research Institutes). In 2019 in_bo was accepted in Elsevier's Scopus. in_bo is owned by the Department of Architecture at the University of Bologna. The journal is managed in partnership with the Department of Architecture at the University of Bologna, Centro Studi Cherubino Ghirardacci (Bologna) and Fondazione Flaminia (Ravenna).

Through an open call, in_bo invites authors to submit full papers on topics that characterize the journal’s lines of research. The open call is open year-round. Papers are first evaluated by the editorial board and then reviewed according to a double-blind peer review process. in_bo focuses on the past and present forms of architecture and the city. The editorial board is interested in receiving proposals on the following research topics: didactics of architecture, design theory, the relationship between the sacred and the built space, and the history and transformations of architecture, the city and the landscape, without chronological or geographical limits.

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Miguel Fisac. Form, Matter and Light: The construction of Sacred Space

2025-12-18

The churches designed by Fisac function as genuine laboratories for experimentation, both in terms of renewing sacred space during the Conciliar transition and in the development of innovative construction systems designed to mold the form of space. Within these works, construction, form, matter, and light intertwine as generative design principles, bestowing identity upon the space.
The authors of the selected contributions will participate in an international conference in Bologna on June 25-26, 2026, organized by in_bo and the Centro Studi Cherubino Ghirardacci.
Authors are invited to submit an abstract in Italian or English using the attached template, to be sent by 15 February 2026, to the address fisac@ghirardacci.org.

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Current Issue

Vol. 16 No. 20 (2025): The Churches and the City
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Edited by Luigi Bartolomei (University of Bologna), Gianluca Buoncore (Univerisità degli Studi di
Firenze), Federica Fuligni (Indipendent researcher), Danilo Manzo (Centro Studi "C. Ghirardacci")


The Volume aims to analyze the relationship between churches and the city in the reconstruction
plans, in the phases of urbanization, in the cultural debate on the role of religious buildings
and their image after the Second Vatican Council, and in the precursor movements in different
European contexts.
Within a reflection on the future of this relationship, in the context of radical changes in the social
structure, in the acceleration between secularization and post-secularization, in the final distinction
between civil community and religious community, the authors draw a path for possible form, role
and model for churches of today and tomorrow.

Published: 2025-10-20

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