Fr. Paul-Michael Piega, Rafael, and Chris discuss the importance of vision for living the life of faith in the parish, making disciples, and sacred architecture's role in forming culture and worship.

What do you do with a million dollars to make your church more beautiful?

Tune in to find out.

Rafa and Chris make a 2022 guess at the potential future of machine learning integration into the architectural design process. We'll do an update in the future to see how much things change or stay the same.

Today we sit down with Luis Martinez, a student in the architecture program at the University of Houston to discuss the beginnings of his thesis for a new monastery for the Benedictines of Our Lady of Clear Creek in their new location in New Mexico.

We review the first of two parts of John Skillen's book "Making School Beautiful which focuses on the theory of making school beautiful. The second part will focus on the application of this theoretical framework.

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This episode we talk about how to engage with your kids in beauty, and how to think about a career in architecture, or even sacred architecture for your high school age or undergraduate students who want to pursue a career designing in service of the church.

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One of the top 10 items we discussed was reaching out to someone who is practicing architecture to talk, and we said to reach out to us. So here is our contact info. We hope you will take us up on it.

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Rafael and Chris sit down with Fr Richard to talk about art and architectural integration in the seminary formation, the ways that diocesan practices affect architectural development, the growing trend of traditional architectural expression in catholic churches, and tilling the spiritual soil of the seminarians in the diocese of Galveston Houston.

The Conference for Catholic Facility Management is a group that hosts an annual conference (this 2022 year the conference was in Denver), where people involved in catholic facility management gather to talk about a variety of topics from facility management, to construction, to real estate, to sustainability. 

This year Rafa and I attended the conference on behalf of our office Jackson and Ryan Architects in Houston, and we are recording this episode a week after we returned to Texas to talk about how the trip to Colorado went.

We got to tour a number of buildings, but our favorite was the seminary chapel at St. John Vianney.

Looking forward to Baltimore in 2023.

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The future is here, it is just unevenly distributed.

Automation is a reality, and a growing part of the design and construction world. In this episode Chris lobs topics, or aspects of design and construction at Rafa and he gives his best "mid 2021" guess as to if it can, will never be, or already is automatable.

Then we talk about the virtues and vices of art that is "created" by an AI or a non-human intelligence, if that is even a thing.

If you had to choose between a perfect, super affordable, machine made design, or a flawed, expensive, man-made one, which would you choose? What value does a human made object obtain from it's creator?

HT: cover art made with Image from Andrea De Santis on Unsplash.