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STEVEN JOSEPH SCHLOEDER, PH.D, AIA SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS Steven Schloeder, Ph.D., A.I.A, is a registered practicing architect (Arizona, California, NCARB) and liturgical consultant specializing in the design of Catholic churches, as well as an author and scholar concentrating in Sacred Architecture, Art History, and Contemporary Architectural Theory. Dr. Schloeder has published widely in academic and popular journals including Sacred Architecture, Adoremus Bulletin, Faith and Form, University Bookman, Crisis, Ministry and Liturgy, and Intercollegiate Review. His architectural projects have been favorably reviewed in Church Building (UK), Faith and Form, and Saint Anthony Messenger. His first book, Architecture in Communion (San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 1998), has been well received internationally and has been translated for the Italian market as L’Architeturra del Corpo Mistico (Palermo: L’Epos 2005). He has recently published Catholic Architecture and Understanding a Church with Catholic Truth Society (London). 7 Dr. Schloeder is also the founding director of the Institute for Studies in Sacred Architecture, (www.issarch.org) a new initiative to promote the scholarly study of sacred architectural traditions and their contemporary implications and expressions in an interdisciplinary, ecumenical, and interfaith forum. ACADEMIC & PROFESSIONAL ACCREDITATIONS 2013 Licensed Architect – State of California #34044 2003 Ph.D. (Theology) – Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley CA 1997 Registered Architect - State of Oklahoma - #3897 (not current) 1997 National Council of Architectural Registration Boards #48444 1989 Master in Architecture – University of Bath, Avon, England 1987 Registered Architect - State of Arizona - #21384 1984 Bachelor of Architecture cum laude – Arizona State University, Tempe AZ PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS American Institute of Architects National Council of Architectural Registration Boards Society for Catholic Liturgy Fellowship of Catholic Scholars Adoremus: Society for the Renewal of Catholic Liturgy Institute for Studies in Sacred Architecture – Director Santa Fe Institute for Catholic Faith and Culture – Institute Fellow 9402 SOUTH 47TH PLACE PHOENIX ARIZONA 85044 (T) 480.783.8787 (E) [email protected] STEVEN JOSEPH SCHLOEDER, PH.D. , ARIA PAGE 2 EDUCATION 1998 - 2003 Graduate Theological Union Berkeley, California Ph.D. (Theology – Arts and Religion) Advisor: Rev. Prof. Michael Morris OP – DSPT Committee: Rev. Prof. Luke Buckles OP – DSPT Prof. Reindert Falkenburg – Leiden Prof. Kathleen James-Chakraborty – UCB . Dissertation: The Church of the Year 2000: A Dialogue on Catholic Architecture for the Third Millennium . Comprehensive: Why does that Church not look like a “Church”?: Notes on Symbol Structure in 20th Century Catholic Liturgical Architecture. Comprehensive: The Image of the Crucified in History – A Gebserian Analysis. Comprehensive: Building the City of Glass – The Theology of the Gothic Cathedral. Comprehensive: The Place of The Tabernacle: A Theological Problem, or an Architectural One? . Comprehensive Design Project: St Rose of Lima, Paso Robles CA: Remodel for the Third Millennium. Research Project: Our Lady of the Angels: An Architectural Preview. Research Project: Il Cortese Spagnolo: A Study in Art and Hagiography. 2000 University of Notre Dame Notre Dame, Indiana Phoenix Institute Summer Session “Toward a Culture of Life” 1999, 2002 - 03 International Institute for Culture Eichstätt, Germany Summer Session in Theology, Philosophy, and Cultural Studies 1993 - 94 -96 University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana Phoenix Institute Summer Sessions in Law, Literature, Political Science, and Theology 1988 - 1989 University of Bath Bath, Avon, England Master in Architecture Advisor: Prof. Michael Brawne, FRIBA Examiners: Dr. Robert Tavernor -- Bath Prof. Joseph Rykwert – Cambridge Mr. Edward Cullinan, FRIBA . Thesis: The Architecture of the Vatican Two Church 1978 - 1984 Arizona State University Tempe, Arizona Bachelor of Architecture - cum laude STEVEN JOSEPH SCHLOEDER, PH.D. , ARIA PAGE 3 PUBLICATIONS “The Architecture of the Mystical Body”, in Between Concept and Identity, ed. Esteban Fernández-Cobián. Cambridge Scholar Publishing, 2014. In production. Architecture in Communion, 2nd Edition. In development. Understanding a church: what we see, and what it means. London: Catholic Truth Society, 2014. “Similis est Homini Patrifamilias: Thinking about the Church as ‘Sacramental Sign’”, in Sacred Architecture, Issue 24 (2013): 29-31. “A Whole Theatrical Presentation” Book review of Real Presence: Sacrament Houses and the Body of Christ by Achim Timmerman, in Sacred Architecture, Issue 23 (2013): 47. Catholic Architecture. London: Catholic Truth Society, 2013. “Domus Dei, Quae Est Ecclesia Dei Vivi : The Myth of the Domus Ecclesiae” in Sacred Architecture, Issue 21 (2012): 12-15; also published as "The Myth of the Domus Ecclesiae" in The Adoremus Bulletin, Vol XVIII, No. 5 (August 2012): 5-7. “Per Lumina Vera ad Verum Lumen: The Anagogical Intention of Abbot Suger”, in ΣΙΜΜΕΙΚΤΑ: Collection of Works – 40th Anniversary of the Institute for Art History, ed. Ivan Stevović, University of Belgrade, Serbia 2012: 143-156. “Book Review: Religion and Modernism” Book review of The Religious Imagination in Modern and Contemporary Architecture: A Reader, edited by Renata Hedjuk and Jim Williamson, in Faith & Form, Vol. XLV, No. 1 (2012): 33. “Rudolf Schwarz and His Reception in America” in Das Münster (1/2011): 47-52; also translated and published as “Rudolf Schwarz e la sua ricezione nelgi Stati Uniti” in Il Covile No. 636 (22 Marzo 2011): 7-16. “Oh Ancient Beauty Ever New: Thinking about Sacramental Architecture” in The Official Catholic Directory, Berkeley Heights NJ: P.J. Kenedy & Sons, 2010. “Heaven Wedded to Earth” in Ministry and Liturgy 34.4 (2007): 8-11, 31-34. L’architettura del Corpo Mistico: Progettare per il culto secondo il Concilio Vaticano II. Palermo: Casa L’Epos Editrice 2005. Italian edition of Architecture in Communion. “Sacred Architecture and the Christian Imagination” in The Catholic Imagination: Proceedings Of The 24th Annual Convention Of The Fellowship Of Catholic Scholars. Kenneth D. Whitehead, ed. South Bend, IN: Saint Augustine’s Press 2003: 74-96. The Church of the Year 2000: A Dialogue on Catholic Church Architecture for the Third Millennium. Ph.D. Dissertation. Berkeley CA: Graduate Theological Union 2003 and Ann Arbor MI: University Microfilm International 2003. “Sacramental Architecture: Body, Temple, City” in Faith and Form 36.3 (2003): 7-10. “Recovery of the Symbolic” in Jacques Maritain and the Many Ways of Knowing. Douglas A. Ollivant, ed. Washington DC: The Catholic University of America Press 2002: 303-314. “If this be ordinary…” Book review of Geometry of Love by Margaret Visser in University Bookman 42.2 (Summer 2002). “From Mission to Mishmash: How Modernism Has Failed Sacred Architecture” in Nexus, A Journal of Opinion 6.1 (Spring 2001): 67-74. “Plany odnowy reformy: nowe spojrzenie na architekturę kościelną” (“Plans for the renewal of the reform: New view on the Architecture of the Church”) in Christianitas 6 [Poland] 2000. STEVEN JOSEPH SCHLOEDER, PH.D. , ARIA PAGE 4 “Back to the Drawing Board: Rethinking Church Architecture” in Crisis (Feb 2000): 33-38. “Chiesa di S. Teresa” in Reconquistare lo spazio sacro. Cristiano Rosponi, ed. Roma: Editrice Il Bosco e La Nava 1999: 129. “The Altar: Direction and Liturgical Dynamics” in The Bride of Christ 23.1: 4-8 (excerpted from Architecture in Communion). “Our Lady of the Angels: An Architectural Review” in Catholic World Report (Dec. 1998). “A Return to Humane Architecture” in Intercollegiate Review 34.1 (Fall 1998). Architecture in Communion: Implementing the Second Vatican Council through Liturgy and Architecture. San Francisco: Ignatius Press 1998. The History and Imagery of Church Architecture. Birkenhead UK: Church in History Information Centre, 1996. “Building Paradise for Homo Modernus” book review of Living Machines by E. Michael Jones, in Catholic World Report (Oct 1995). “What Happened to Church Architecture?” in Catholic World Report (Mar 1995). The Architecture of the Vatican Two Church. M. Arch Thesis. University of Bath, UK 1989. INVITED PAPERS “The Myth of the Domus Ecclesiae” delivered at A Living Presence Symposium, School of Architecture and Planning, Catholic University of America, Washington DC, 30 April 2010. "The Architecture of the Mystical Body” keynote address at the 2nd International Conference on Contemporary Religious Architecture, Ourense Spain, 12 November 2009. Sponsored by Fundación Santa María Nai and Delegación de Ourense del COAG. “Our Town as the Heavenly Jerusalem” delivered at Communitas Conference , Eichstätt Germany, 14 June 2003. Sponsored by the International Institute for Culture. “Body, Temple and City: The Architectural Language of the Christian Imagination” delivered at Christianity and the Creative Imagination Conference, Eichstätt Germany, 18 June 2002. Sponsored by the International Institute for Culture and Touchstone magazine. “Sacred Architecture and Christian Imagination” delivered at Fellowship of Catholic Scholars Annual Conference, Omaha NE, 29 September 2001. Published in The Catholic Imagination: Proceedings Of The 24th Annual Convention Of The Fellowship Of Catholic Scholars (Fellowship of Catholic Scholars). PUBLIC LECTURES “Sacred Art: Past, Present, and Future”, delivered at Legatus, Phoenix AZ, 7 June 2014. “The Ontology of Beauty: Beauty