University of Virginia

“How to Make a Church ‘Look Like’ a Church: Architecture as An Image of Heaven”

A lecture by Prof. Denis McNamara (Academic Director and Associate Professor of the Liturgical Institute at St. Mary of the Lake).

Monroe 130

6:30 PM

Co-sponsored with the St. Anselm Institute for Catholic Thought at UVA.

This event is free and open to the public. 

About the Speaker:

Dr. Denis McNamara is Associate Professor of Sacramental Aesthetics and Academic Director at the Liturgical Institute of the University of Saint Mary of the Lake/Mundelein Seminary, a graduate program in liturgical studies founded by Cardinal Francis George of Chicago. He holds a BA in the History of Art from Yale University and a PhD in Architectural History from the University of Virginia, where he concentrated his research on the study of ecclesiastical architecture of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.