"Our Lady of Fátima" Chapel, Maschwitz, Buenos Aires.
In an interview published in the architecture magazine Summa+, Caveri referred to his last work, Capilla Nuestra Señora de Fátima (Nuestra Señora de Fátima Chapel) (2001), which he built in Maschwitz together with his son, Esteban, as associate architect:
"Descending with a view to ascending... The Priest asked me to include the eight Beatitudes. So I had the idea of combining the eight Beatitudes with the wourteen stations of the Way of the Cross. I thought that my daughter Mara, who is a painter, could portray a procession containing the eight Beatitudes starting frow below, under the ground, the moment when Jesus was tried: "Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness´ sake", to end with crucifixion in the upper part, and thus, almost naturally, it took on a spiral shape. A spiral is another sign with a symbolic meaning. A spiral is a kind of circle, but a circle that is not closed" (Caveri, Claudio)
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