The Liturgical Institute in Mundelein has announced a special event on October 30th with noted traditional Catholic church architect Thomas Gordon Smith. Smith teaches at the University of Notre Dame’s School of Architecture and is the architect of the Our Lady of Gudalupe seminary in Nebraska as well as the Benedictine abbey in Clear Creek, Oklahoma. He is also a theorist and author, aside from being an interesting and engaging speaker.
His talk will focus on “theory and practice” in today’s new classical architecture, meaning how the great Catholic and classical ideas get made into real buildings in today’s climate of budgets and theological uncertainty.
The event begins at 7:30 pm on October 30th, is free and open to the public, and will be located in the Music Room of the Theology Aula on the Campus of the University of Saint Mary of the Lake in Mundelein, Illinois. If you are building a new church or just interested to see what a leader of the New Classical movement is doing these days, come on by. For more information, call 847.837.4542.
October 23, 2008 at 6:05 pm
I spent the last week in Clear Creek, the architecture is amazing, I can’t wait to see it when the Church is finished.
October 23, 2008 at 6:27 pm
hmmmm, very intersting, sounds like i’ll need to check it out.
October 25, 2008 at 1:19 pm
I would love to attend, Thomas Gordon Smith
is a leading voice in bringing classical architecture “back” to catholic architecture
Catholic churches should look like Catholic churches