Painted Churches of Texas: St Peter, Lindsay
/From a visit to one of the Painted Churches of Texas: a magnificently restored Romanesque Revival in the German Catholic town of Lindsay.
Read MoreChurches in the Modern World
/Robert Proctor of the Glasgow School of Art concludes an important and expansive research project examining the under-appreciated British Catholic churches of 1955-1975.
Read MoreTwo Dallas Chapels
/Photographs and analysis from church-crawling two finely-crafted chapels in Dallas, Texas.
Read MoreCathedrals of Burlington, Vermont
/The unique condition of two cathedrals built in the same city at the same time provides a rare opportunity to compare two built responses to similar criteria.
Read MoreConsecration Crosses
/Description and examples of an oft-overlooked feature of church architecture with profound liturgical, formal and symbolic meaning and great design potential.
Read MorePrairie Chapel, Minnesota
/Review of a Progressive Architecture award-winning small private chapel whose design features a highly successful adaptation of rural vernacular through the subtle manipulation of a re-used quonset structure.
Read MoreOn Christ & Architecture
/A brief examination of buildings and building imagery in the gospels as an investigation into Christ's views on architecture (if any).
Read MoreOutraged Christ
/A new crucifix by Charles Lutyens, currently placed in St Paul, Bow Common, illustrates not only a promising direction for contemporary liturgical art, but also the potential for artworks, buildings, and furnishings to work in concert.
Read MoreLiturgical Arrangement Typology
/A preliminary proposal for a very succinct method for adding a use-based typology of Liturgical Arrangements to existing stylistic descriptions.
Read MoreGrand Opening for the Poor Clares at Ronchamp
/A cause for celebration. The new convent at Notre Dame du Haut, Ronchamp (sans its final landscaping) had its grand opening celebration in early September.
Read MoreChristchurch Cardboard Cathedral
/Shigeru Ban designs another paper structure for the aid of natural disaster victims, this time a Cathedral in Christchurch, New Zealand.
Read MoreFinally, A Solution to the Avdat Problem?
/The avdat font at St Francis Basilica Cathedral, Santa Fe features a beautiful grate just below the surface of the water that allows the font to remain full without losing its profound imagery to the building code.
Read MoreSt John Neumann, Austin: Construction Update 2
/A tour of the exterior of the newest church in the Catholic Diocese of Austin as it nears completion.
Read MoreBeautiful Timber Cathedral in New Zealand
/Photos of a wonderfully idiosyncratic building that is good example of gothic forms rendered entirely in wood.
Read MoreA Selection of Recent Churches
/In the past few weeks a number of recent churches garnered attention in the architectural press. In addition to the Val Notre-Dame Abbey, Saint-Jean-de-Matha and Good Shepherd, Ponferrada already featured, here are four contemporary churches of note.
Read MoreBike Church, Tuscon
/The familiar ghost bike memorials transformed from object to spatial folk-art sculpture.
Read MoreVisible Reminder of Invisible Light: Good Shepherd, Ponferrada
/Images from the consecration of a new church in in Ponferrada, Spain.
Read MoreA Muscular Expression of Worship: St John Abbey
/A collection of photos of Breuer's St John Abbey, Collegeville taken during the 2010 Architecture Culture and Spirituality Symposium.
Read MoreSagrada Familia Consecration
/Coverage of the monumental consecration of the Sagrada Familia, Barcelona including videos of the liturg, excerpts from the homily given by Pope Benedict XVI, and notes on the cause for Gaudi's sainthood.
Read MoreVal Notre-Dame Abbey
/October's Architectural Record features a new Cistercian abbey designed by and completed in 2009: Val Notre-Dame Abbey, Saint-Jean-de-Mathas, Quebec. Here is yet one more example that the Cistercians have always been and continue to be the finest architectural patrons in Christendom.
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