Erik Bootsma

Erik Bootsma is a graduate of Thomas Aquinas College and the University of Notre Dame's School of Architecture with a Masters in Architecture. Mr. Bootsma has studied sacred architecture under Duncan Stroik and Thomas Gordon Smith. Currently he is working on plans for an Eastern Catholic monastery in Pennsylvania including a chapel and a long term master plan for a monastic and lay community. He can be reached at erikbootsma@gmail.com.

Articles by Erik Bootsma

Novelty vs. Beauty

Aug 25, 2009 / 00:00 am

When I tell Catholics I meet that I’m an architect, invariably they ask me, “Why doesn’t the church I attend look like a church? Why don’t they build nice churches like the old ones we love?” Sometimes I come up with a complicated answer or theory, but most of the time I answer, “architects.”