Interview with Duncan Stroik

The fourth interview of Building Beautiful is starting now! Tune into our YouTube livestream to listen to @DuncanStroik and @SCP_Hughes discuss traditional architecture and urbanism: https://t.co/4nWrMHwEik

— Roger Scruton Legacy Foundation (@Scruton_Legacy) December 8, 2020

CWR Blog: Duncan Stroik wins national award for architecture by CWR Staff
The Arthur Ross Award is the oldest award for classical architecture in the United States.

5 Years Already

Post by Thomas Aquinas College.

City Journal Review of The Church Building as a Sacred Place: Beauty, Transcendence, and the Eternal

City Journal: Sacred Revival by Colette Arredondo
A Catholic architect calls for churches that “look like churches.”

I actually received this book as a gift for Christmas - looking forward to reading it. Now if only Mr. Stroik would do a study of Byzantine architecture...

Duncan Stroik - faculty page
Hillenbrand Books


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Originality and Tradition

Duncan Stroik's YT channel

Duncan Stroik's Latest Book

Duncan Stroik: Church Architecture—Tradition in Continuity

Duncan Stroik on Church Architecture

The Church Building as a Sacred Place: Beauty, Transcendence, and the Eternal by Duncan G. Stroik

A Monument to Blessed Columba Marmion

NLM: Monument to Blessed Columba Marmion by Duncan G. Stroik Unveiled in Rome

What of the Boomers?

From Fr. Rutler - Anger Management. It is a good discussion of the emotion of anger and the proper Christian view of the emotion. Is his assessment of our society correct? "We now inhabit a hedonistic culture too slothful to be angry about much of anything, which is why it is easily bought off by sensual gratifications of the crudest sorts."

Will there be a backlash against the Boomers if it becomes clear that decline is irreversible and that they have contributed more than their share to getting us to this point? The resentment and anger may be seething below the surface. There are plenty of happy consumers, but what about those who are struggling financially and wondering why the American Dream seems so impossible to attain now? How many men have retreated into their private pursuits and diversions not because of laziness or lack of initiative but because they have been prevented from exercising a masculine role in society? Might not their recreation be a form of "doping" to suppress "negative" emotions?

Also from Crisis:
Is Totalitarian Liberalism A Mutant Form of Christianity? by Tracey Rowland
Should the Bishop Have Bought the Crystal Cathedral? by Duncan G. Stroik

Liturgical Institute Conference on Sacred Architecture

The Glory of Catholic Architecture - October 25 and 26

Duncan Stroik will be one of the presenters, as well as Fr. Uwe Michael Lang, C.O.

Duncan Stroik on Crystal Cathedral

The timing of this is wrong

One of the major criticisms of Catholic architecture during the past fifty years is that it has incorrectly adopted many of the forms of low-church Protestantism: the theater form, a fear of sacred images, asymmetrical layouts, vacuous sanctuaries, minimalist liturgical elements, prominently placed Jacuzzis for baptism, and the banishment of the Blessed Sacrament to the baptistry. The altar area becomes a stage with a focus on entertainment alongside praise bands that perform upbeat m sic.


In response, liturgists have argued that all of these things are simply the outgrowth if not the requirement of Vatican II. Are they finally admitting their agenda by purchasing a ready for TV mega-church complete with a jumbotron and three huge balconies for the "spectators"?

Duncan Stroik wins 2011 Palladio Award

Traditional Building: 2011 Palladio Award - New Design & Construction – less than 30,000 sq.ft.
Winner: Duncan G. Stroik Architect, LLC

Sacred Mission by Lynne Lavelle