When footage of an inferno engulfing Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris flashed across our news feeds on April 15, 2019, the world collectively gasped. What would Paris be without this iconic cathedral to ...

We asked two experts, one an architect and the other a sacred space planner, to suggest three things that American Catholics should know about church design today. We also asked them to select a ...

Here’s an article from the Jesuit-published America magazine, noting that traditional church design has made a remarkable comeback. Not all the churches in the accompanying slideshow are exactly my ...

This is the 13th in an 18-part series highlighting the work of Lancaster’s preeminent 19th- and 20th-century architect, Cassius Emlen Urban. At the turn of the 20th century, C. Emlen Urban was ...

Barcelona’s Sagrada Familia church has reached its maximum height with the placement of a cross on its central Tower of Jesus Christ. The Czech Republic’s Archdiocese of Prague has welcomed ...

For centuries, Catholic churches were designed with intentional patterns of form, light, and orientation meant to guide the faithful through a shared spiritual journey. Elements such as axial ...

McCrery Architects designed the Supreme Court gift shop—and a lot of churches. Now the iconic East Wing is being demoed for its massive ballroom design. The hot new amenity for churches? A ...