The Architecture of Prayer
January 2023
The Center Art Gallery at Calvin University presents The Architecture of Prayer, an international survey of the contemporary church. The exhibition showcases drawings and travel photography of historic church buildings in dialogue with new projects built between 1999 and the present-contributed by aver 40 global architecture firms-including:
Ad Jaye Associates Centerbrook
Coop Himmelb(L)Au
Dellekamp Arquitectos
John Pawson
Mario Botta Architetti
Marlon Black Well Architects
Neri&Hu
Niall Mclaughlin Architects
Olson Kundig
Ply+
Robert A.M. Stern Architects
Shigeru Ban Architects
RIBA Journal Feature on the Bishop Edward King Chapel
July 2013
Under the tile ‘Happy Ending’, Jan-Carlos Kucharek has reviewed the Chapel for Ripon Theological College in Oxfordshire. The article reflects on the conversations with the client to develop the design, together with the stories and architectural precedents that worked together to inform the building’s final form. Kucharek writes, “…there’s no questioning the positive effect of McLaughlin’s £2.6m chapel on the picturesque Ripon College, both functionally and aesthetically.” He goes on to describe the elliptical form, accessed on the diagonal between the long and short axes, as “a master stroke.”