- On Tradition and Architectural Education (1987)
- Deconstruction and Architecture (1988)
- Big Plans, Divine Details (1990)
- Peter Eisenman and the Architecture of the Therapeutic (1990)
- Theory and Ballpark Design in Baseball’s Gilded Age (1992)
- Authority and Architectural Education in Chicago (1993)
- Making Sacred (1993)
- A Dutch Master and the Good Life (1995)
- Coors Field Shines (1995)
- Virtuous Reality (1996)
- Building Blocks (1998)
- The Architectural Community and the Polis (1998)
- Nature, Human Nature, and the Soul (1998)
- Fifty Reasons the Old Ballparks Were Better (1999)
- Design and Happiness (2000)
- St. Colin Rowe and the Architecture Theory Wars (2000)
- The Case for Fenway Park (2000)
- No Anxiety About Influence (2002)
- Saving the Twins for the Twin Cities (2002)
- Civic Art and the City of God (2003)
- The New Urbanism: From Aristotle and God to Baseball (2003)
- New Urbanism and Religion (2005)
- New Urbanism and Politics (2005)
- The Polis and Natural Law (2006)
- Our Lady’s Guild (2007).
- From a Cause to a Style (Nathan Glazer Book Review, 2008)
- The Grace of Neighborhood Baseball Parks (2008).
- Toward a Renewed Culture of Building (2010)
- Porchers and PoMoCons (2010)
- A Realist Philosophical Case for Urbanism and Against Sprawl (2011)
- The Ethical Formation of Notre Dame Graduate Students (2011)
- America the Beautiful (Philadelphia Society Keynote, 2011)
- Suburban Origins, Suburban Legacies (2012)
- God and Man at Seaside (2012)
- Commentary on the Andres Duany Comments on Charter Principle #25 (2013)
- Power and Authority in Architecture and Urbanism (2014)
- Metaphysical Realism, Modernity and Traditional Cultures of Building (2014)
- Building on Truth (2015)
- Even Mother Nature Has An Agent (2015)
- In Bruges in Bruges (2015)
- City Stories of Nature and Grace (2016)
- Climate Adaptation Implications in the ND Plan of Chicago 2109 (with Will Dowdy, 2017)
- Imagining the Sustainable City (2017)
- Henry George’s Land Value Tax (2018)
- Chicago 2109 – the Metropolitan Region as an Agrarian Urban Unit (2018)
- Concurrence and Final Report – ND Ad-Hoc Committee on Faculty Governance (2018)
- Excursus – Hunting LaFox XIV (2019)
- Hunting LaFox II: Conjectural Land Value Taxation in Kane County, IL (2019)
- Imagine the Obama Presidential Center on Chicago’s Midway Plaisance (2019)