Santa Maria Assunta, Riola di Vergato

Santa Maria Assunta ("Assumption of Mary") is a Catholic church located in Riola di Vergato, northern Italy.

The Archbishop of Bologna, Cardinal Giacomo Lercaro secured Aalto's participation upon seeing his work in an exhibition in Florence at the Palazzo Strozzi.

They support a series of prefabricated light scoops, which are conic sections, giving the church its distinctive exterior profile, which some liken to an abstraction of the local Apennine mountains.

Wooden pews, each slightly shorter in length than the preceding one as they approach the chancel are placed on the terra cotta tile floors.

The architecture references both the distinctive light fixtures Aalto designed as well as his bent plywood furniture produced by his company Artek.