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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)
Finding Beauty in the Public Realm, City Journal Interview (2020)
Nature Cities and Laudato Si', Church Life Journal (2021)