Contemporary Church Architecture

- Introduction

- The Twentieth-Century Church: The Enigma of Sacred Objectivity by Edwin Heathcote

- Naked Churches - the Northern Tradition By Edwin Heathcote

- Expression and Repression: Gesture and the Everyday By Edwin Heathcote

- Santo Ovidio Estate Chapel Álvaro Siza

- Night Pilgrimage Chapel Gerold Wiederin

- Los Nogales School Chapel Daniel Bonilla Arquitectos

- Carmelite Monastery Chapel and Sacristy Níall McLaughlin Architects

- Oberrealta Chapel - Christian Kerez with Fontana & Partner AG

- Chapel of St Mary of the Angels - Mecanoo Architecten

- Private Chapel - Estudio Sancho-Madridejos

- Church of St Thomas Aquinas - Sarah Hare and Thomas Höger (formerly Höger Hare Architekten) with Norbert Radermacher

- Church of St John the Baptist - Mario Botta Architetto

- Jesuit Retreat Chapel - Ruíz Barbarín Arquitectos

- Church of San Giovanni Rotondo - Renzo Piano Building Workshop

- Christ Church - Heinz Tesar

- Mortensrud Church - Jensen and Skodvin

- Paper Church - Shigeru Ban Architects

- Church of the Sacred Heart - Allman, Sattler, Wappner

- Church of Santa Maria - Álvaro Siza

- Jubilee Church - Richard Meier & Partners

- NovŽy Dvur Monastery - John Pawson

- Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels - José Rafael Moneo

- Yancey Chapel - Samuel Mockbee and Rural Studio

- St Ignatius Church - Steven Holl Architects

- Harajyuku Church - Ciel Rouge Création

- Sacred Heart Catholic Church and Parish Centre - Lamott Architekten

- Faith House - Tony Fretton Architects

- Korean Presbyterian Church of New York - Greg Lynn, Douglas Garofalo, Michael McInturf

- Antioch Baptist Church - Rural Studio

- St Stephen's Church - Imre Makovecz

- The Christ Pavilion - Meinhard von Gerkan and Joachim Zais.

Edwin Heathcote is the architecture critic for the Financial Times and is a regular contributor to architecture and design magazines. He is an architect and lives and works in London. In 2001, he founded a design manufacturer, Izé specialising in architect-designed hardware. He is the author of several books for Wiley-Academy, including Church Builders (1996) and London Caffs (2004). Laura Moffatt is Director of Art and Christianity Enquiry (ACE), the UK's leading educational organisation in the field of the visual arts and religion. ACE runs a biennial award scheme for religious architecture and regular seminars on the synthesis of art and architecture in the religious context. Laura is also continuing a theological study of Modernist church architecture.

"Contemporary Church Architecture is worth buying for Heathcote's compressed history." (Building Design, Cover date 22nd June)

"This book explores the development of contemporary church design by looking at how the rational and the sacred can be reconciled and inform one another." (Church Building, July/August 2007)

"Heathcote's text is judicious and remarkably comprehensive." (Architects Journal, Thursday 12th July 2007)

"With stunning photographs, some full-page, this work really shows off the architecture of each building." (Methodist Recorder , cover date 30th August 2007)

"Contemporary Church Architecture is worth buying for Heathcote's compressed history." (Building Design, Cover date 22nd June) "explores the development of contemporary church design by looking at how the rational and the sacred can be reconciled ." (Church Building, July/August 2007) "With stunning photographs, some full-page, this work really shows off the architecture of each building." (Methodist Recorder , cover date 30th August 2007)