THE PLACE TO BE
STATION OF THE CROSS: Sunlight and shadows create their own iconography in central Argentina.
NICOLAS CAMPODONICO
TO ITS WEST, the elemental brick Capilla San Bernardo faces a seemingly boundless stretch of golden-grassed Argentinian pampas. Finding this small, sacred building on a map is like looking for a particularly secretive needle in 100 square miles of hay. Built in 2015 by Nicolás Campodonico—an architect trained and resident in Rosario, in the center of the country— the chapel is dedicated to Bernard, a local patron saint. It broods silently at one far end of an estancia on the agricultural hem of La Playosa, an isolated village of a few gridiron streets branded into fields 80 miles southeast of Cordoba.