Matthew Alderman

Matthew Alderman, a graduate of Notre Dame’s School of Architecture, lives and works in Manhattan.  His writing has appeared in First Things, Touchstone, and StAR.  His design for the new 40-foot-tall altarpiece for the historic Most Holy Mother of God Catholic Church in Vladivostok, Russia, was featured in a recent article in Catholic World Report.
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Articles by Matthew Alderman

Pinnacles and Onion Domes of New York: Manhattan's Houses of Worship

David W. Dunlap’s From Abyssinian to Zion: A Guide to Manhattan’s Houses of Worship taps into a very elemental part of my New York—its oft-neglected churches, synagogues, and temples

The Lonely God: Oakland Cathedral in the Light of Tradition

The Cathedral of Christ the Light in Oakland fuses Christian symbolism and modernist architecture in a luminous yet vacant church for the Diocese of Oakland.