Locus Iste examines the theory, history, and practice of architecture in service of liturgy and worship through research and blogging, design consultancy, and photography.

Locus iste a Deo factus est,
inaestimabile sacramentum,
irreprehensibilis est.

 

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Feature Articles, Painted Churches of Texas
Painted Churches of Texas: St Peter, Lindsay
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From a visit to one of the Painted Churches of Texas: a magnificently restored Romanesque Revival in the German Catholic town of Lindsay.

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Churches in the Modern World
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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.

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Two Dallas Chapels
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Photographs and analysis from church-crawling two finely-crafted chapels in Dallas, Texas.

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Cathedrals of Burlington, Vermont
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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.

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Consecration Crosses
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Description and examples of an oft-overlooked feature of church architecture with profound liturgical, formal and symbolic meaning and great design potential.

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Prairie Chapel, Minnesota
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Awards

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.

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On Christ & Architecture
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A brief examination of buildings and building imagery in the gospels as an investigation into Christ's views on architecture (if any).

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Feature Articles, Liturgical Arts
Outraged Christ
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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.

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Liturgical Arrangement Typology
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A preliminary proposal for a very succinct method for adding a use-based typology of Liturgical Arrangements to existing stylistic descriptions.

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Grand Opening for the Poor Clares at Ronchamp
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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.

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Christchurch Cardboard Cathedral
Feature Articles, Images, Lost Buildings, Video

Shigeru Ban designs another paper structure for the aid of natural disaster victims, this time a Cathedral in Christchurch, New Zealand.

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Finally, A Solution to the Avdat Problem?
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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.

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