"St. Gabriel's Church: A LEED church building project"

By Roberto Chiotti

The second of two articles; submitted to Celebrate-Liturgy Magazine, May 2006.

LEED is the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design Green Building Council

"St. Gabriel's Church: A LEED church building project, Part 1"

by Roberto Chiotti

The first of two articles; submitted to Celebrate-Liturgy Magazine, April 2006

LEED is the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design Green Building Council

"Interrupting the Profane" and essay by Roberto Chiotti

An architect immersed in theology provides insight into the formal and material tradition of sacred spaces.

Islamic Science, An Illustrated Study by Seed Hossein Nasr

Chapter III -- Cosmology, Cosmography and Geography

This text contains numerous notes, images, and figures that should be reviewed.

Apologies for mispronunciations.

Leon Baptist's Alberti "On Painting"

Books I and II

Please refer to the test for figures related to the text. Figures are not identified in this reading.

Abbot Suger "On the Abbey Church of St. Denis and Its Art Treasures"

Editied, Translated, and Annotated by Edwin Panofsky

Chapters 24 - 34A

Victor Hugo Notre-Dame of Paris

Book 5, Chapter 2 "This Will Kill That"

Chapter 8 "Ordering the World"

Means and Meanings of Proportion and Geometry

"The Mosque in the Medieval Islamic World"

An essay by Robert Hillenbrand