Susan Klaiber (Ph.D., FAAR) is an architectural historian based in Winterthur, Switzerland, whose work focuses on Baroque architecture in Italy, France, and Germany. Her publications include the book Guarino Guarini (Umberto Allemandi & C.), co-edited with G. Dardanello and H. A. Millon. She serves on the governing committee of the European Architectural History Network, and was founding editor of the Network’s EAHN Newsletter (2007-2010). Website: www.susanklaiber.wordpress.com.
Kimberly A. Kloch is a Restoration Designer at Mesick Cohen Wilson Baker Architects, LLC in Albany, New York, and a graduate of Norwich University in Vermont.
Rev. Stephen M. Koeth, CSC, is a doctoral student at Columbia University, working on a dissertation on the suburbanization of American Catholicism.
Renee Kohler-Ryan is a doctoral candidate at the Institute of Philosophy at the Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium. Her dissertation is on the topic of "Sacred Space."
Leon Krier is considered the godfather of the New Urbanism movement. He has served as a visiting professor at Yale School of Architecture and has created masterplans for several communities, including the Prince of Wales’ New Town of Poundbury. He received the inaugural Richard H. Driehaus Architecture Prize in 2003, given by the University of Notre Dame to the architect whose work embodies the highest ideals of traditional and Classical architecture in contemporary society.
Reverend Uwe Michael Lang is a priest of the Congregation of the Oratory of Saint Philip Neri in London and teaches at Mater Ecclesiae College, Saint Mary’s University, Twickenham. He is the author of Turning Towards the Lord.
Jerry W. Lawson is the National Manager for U.S. EPA’s ENERGY STAR congregations program. He previously served as Executive Director for Conservation, Customer Service, Rates and Forecasting at the Lower Colorado River Authority (LCRA), a central Texas regional utility. Prior to LCRA, Lawson headed energy and water management for the City of Austin, Texas as Director for Resource Management. A native Arkansan, Lawson also served as Deputy Director for Conservation and Renewable Resources at the Arkansas state energy department.
Daniel Lee is an architect in private practice in Old Town Alexandria, Virginia.
Catesby Leigh is a writer and architectural critic residing in Washington, DC.
Elizabeth Lev is an art historian who teaches, studies, and writes in Rome with a special focus on Renaissance and Baroque art. Her most recent book is The Silent Knight: A History of Saint Joseph as Depicted in Art.
Matthew Levering, PhD, is the Perry Family Foundation Professor of Theology at Mundelein Seminary. He serves as co-editor of the quarterly journal Nova et Vetera, and has authored and edited numerous books, including Sacrifice and Community: Jewish Offering and Christian Eucharist (Blackwell).
Michael J. Lewis is teaches modern architecture and American art at Williams College and is the architectural critic for the Wall Street Journal.
Craig S. Lewis is the Principal of Lawrence Group Town Planners and Architects in Davidson, NC. www.thelawrencegroup.com
This text is based on a video interview which has additional information and images. It can be found on YouTube, “A. W. N. Pugin: God’s Architect?”
Ralph Lieberman is an architectural historian and photographer who has published on Renaissance architecture in Venice, Michelangelo, perspective, and the Crystal Palace. He has taught at Williams College, Smith College, Amherst College, Harvard University, and the Rhode Island School of Design, and is now at work on a book on photography and art history.
Ciro Lomonte, freelance architect and professor at the “Master in Architecture, Sacred Arts and Liturgy” at the European University in Rome, works for private clients in the area of sacred architecture together with Guido Santoro (http://lomontesantoro.jimdo.com). He also promotes courses for silversmiths and goldsmiths.
Christopher Longhurst, born in New Zealand, received his doctorate in Sacred Theology from the Pontifical Angelicum University, Rome, with a specialization in theological aesthetics. He was a member of the faculty at the Marymount International School in Rome starting in 2004, and currently writes on the intersections of art and religion and works as a docent at the Papal Galleries at the Vatican Museums.
The Most Rev. William E. Lori was appointed Archbishop of Baltimore by Pope Benedict XVI in 2012. This homily was delivered on May 31, 2021.
Calder Loth is Senior Architectural Historian for the Virginia Department of Historic Resources and serves on the Council of Advisors for the Institute of Classical Architecture and Art. He serves as an instructor in architectural literacy for the ICAA.
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Brian W. MacMichael graduated with a Master of Theological Studies degree from the University of Notre Dame and serves as the Director of the Office of Worship for the Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend, Indiana
Therese Madigan is on the staff of Sacred Architecture and is studying architecture at the University of Notre Dame.
William Mahrt is Associate Professor of Music at Stanford University, specializing in Medieval and Renaissance music. He is President of the Church Music Association of America and editor of its journal Sacred Music, and he conducts a chant choir which sings Gregorian Mass and Vespers with classical polyphony every Sunday.
Katherine Mallin is the daughter of Ralph Mallin, the youngest of John Mallin’s children. She has created a website about Mallin’s work based on Mallin’s archival documents, photos, and paintings that were passed down to her from her aunt, Mildred Mallin Fritz. See JohnAMallin.com
Kevin C. Manning is an architect in the office of Jaeger, Nickola & Associates, a Chicago architecture firm specializing in church design. Dr. Nicholas J. Watkins is Director of Research & Innovation at Hellmuth, Obata, and Kassabaum (HOK). Dr. Kathryn H. Anthony is a Professor in the School of Architecture at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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Michael H. Marchal recently retired after a long career teaching literature and philosophy in high school and college. His last two books have focused on the RCIA: the award-winning The Spirit At Work and Towards the Table.
Archbishop Francesco Marchisano is Secretary of the Pontifical Commission for the Conservation of the Artistic and Sacred Patrimony. The Commission, which was founded by Pope John Paul II in 1988, was instituted to look after the wide areas of the Church's cultural heritage.
Tod A. Marder, Ph.D., is professor of art history at Rutgers University. He is an expert in the art of Bernini, the city of ancient and modern Rome, and Renaissance and baroque art. He has published Bernini's Scala Regia at the Vatican Palace: Architecture, Sculpture and Ritual (Cambridge University Press) and Bernini and the Art of Architecture (Abbeville Press).
The above selection is an excerpt from one of seven articles on the Maronite liturgy available on the website of the Maronite Patriarch of Antioch and All the East: www.bkerkelb.org. Based in Bkerke, Lebanon, the Patriarch of Antioch and All the East is the head of the Maronite Catholic Church.
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George Joseph Martin is a Visiting Associate Professor of Architecture at Mississippi State University and former Director of the Graduate Concentration in Cultural and Sacred Studies in The School of Architecture & Planning at The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C.
David Mayernik is an urban designer, architect and fresco painter who divides his time between the United States and Europe. He has designed the TASIS school campuses in Switzerland and England, and painted frescoes in the US, Italy, and Switzerland (for the church of San Tommaso, Agra). He has a website at www.davidmayernik.com.
Rev. C. John McCloskey, III, STD is a priest of the Prelature of Opus Dei. He currently is a Research Fellow of the Faith and Reason Institute in Washington, D.C.
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Ralph McInerny (+ 2009) served as director of the Jacques Maritain Center at the University of Notre Dame, founded numerable journals, and wrote innumerable books on St. Thomas Aquinas and Father Dowling.
Dr. Daniel McInerny is associate director of the Notre Dame Center for Ethics and Culture.
Denis R. McNamara is Associate Director and Associate Professor at the Liturgical Institute of Mundelein Seminary in the Archdiocese of Chicago. He is the author of Heavenly City: The Architectural Tradition of Catholic Chicago and Catholic Church Architecture and the Spirit of the Liturgy.
Denis R. McNamara, an architectural historian who specializes in American church Architecture, holds a Ph.D. from the University of Virginia. He is the assistant director and faculty member at the Liturgical Institute of the University of Saint Mary of the Lake / Mundelein Seminary, and serves as a liturgical design consultant. His recent book, Heavenly City, was published by Liturgy Training Publications, Chicago. Duncan Stroik is director of the Institute for Sacred Architecture and a Professor at the University of Notre Dame School of Architecture.
Hugh J. McNichol is a freelance Catholic author, businessman, and educator. He writes daily for the Catholic News Agency in his column, "Nothing Left Unsaid!" He received his education in philosophy and theology at the Saint Charles Borromeo Seminary in Philadelphia, and is an enthusiast of American Catholic culture and Philadelphia history.
Duncan McRoberts is an architect living and working in Seattle.
Evan McWilliams holds a M.A. in Architectural History from the Savannah College of Art and Design. His primary interests are the confluence of architecture and liturgy and the influence of nineteenth and twentieth-century scholar-architects on the production of church art.
Evan McWilliams (MA, Architectural History, Savannah College of Art and Design) is currently completing his PhD at the University of York on a topic related to the late Gothic Revival.
Ms. Michel is Haitian-American and lives in New York City. She practices architecture at Ferguson & Shamamian Architects and remains active in projects in Haiti through the non-profit organization HIBISCUS. Ms. Michel was awarded a CNU Charter Award of Excellence in 2011 for her master’s thesis project ‘From Settlement to City: A Masterplan for Cap-Haitien, Haiti.’
Sandra Miesel has written hundreds of articles for the Catholic press, principally on history, art, and hagiography. She holds an M.A. in medieval history and is co-author with Carl Olson of The Da Vinci Hoax (Ignatius 2004).
Dr. Henry M. Miller is an historical archaeologist serving as the Maryland Heritage Scholar for the state museum of Historic St. Mary's City and directed the overall chapel reconstruction effort. A book on the entire project is under preparation and visitors are welcome to tour the site as part of the Historic St. Mary's City museum.
David Mills, consulting editor of Sacred Architecture Journal, is editor of Hour of Our Death (www.hourofourdeath.org) and a senior editor of The Catholic Herald.
Elizabeth A. Mitchell, S.C.D., is the author of Artist and Image: Artistic Creativity and Personal Formation in the Thought of Edith Stein. She teaches Literature and Italian at Trinity Academy, Wisconsin.
Paul G. Monson is a graduate student in theology at Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Rodrigo Bollat Montenegro is the founding principal at RBM Architecture & Design, a firm that focuses on custom residential design, community urban planning, and the continuing adaptation of traditional values in architecture and urbanism in our modern world. Rodrigo is a licensed architect in the state of New York and in his native Guatemala, where his practice is based.