Architecture

A monastery on Patmos builds silence in a world of noise.

Under the fluorescent lights, we come to commune, not to be entertained.

Survey shows most don’t like trendy, modern buildings.

More congregations are trading casseroles for coffee shops.

In a rapidly urbanizing China, some houses of worship are taking inspiration from the Bible while rethinking local architectural tradition.

The Bible is consistent in condemning shortcuts that hurt others. And they’re rife.

Congregations can’t entirely be separated from the ground they occupy.

How to read what the wood, glass, and stone say about God.

An attempt to examine the church’s history through its architecture suffers from narrow understandings of “church” and “history” alike.

The cathedral’s famous Gothic form, which proclaimed Christ in shape and structure, will never die.