Duncan Stroik AIA

Biography

Duncan G. Stroik is a practicing architect, author, and Professor of Architecture at the University of Notre Dame. The recipient of seven Palladio Awards, his most recognized work includes the Our Lady of the Most Holy Trinity Chapel in Santa Paula, California, the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe in La Crosse, Wisconsin, and Christ Chapel in Hillsdale, Michigan, which was crowned ‘Best Architecture of 2019’ by the Wall Street Journal. Stroik has been published in Traditional Building, the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, and L’Osservatore Romano, is the author of The Church Building as a Sacred Place: Beauty, Transcendence and the Eternal, and is the founding editor of the Sacred Architecture Journal. A frequent lecturer on sacred architecture and the classical tradition, he has appeared on NPR, Fox News, and A&E. In 2024 he produced a new classical ballet which was featured in the Wall Street Journal. He is a graduate of the University of Virginia and the Yale University School of Architecture. Professor Stroik was the 2016 winner of the Institute for Classical Art and Architecture’s Arthur Ross Award for Architecture, and was a member of the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts from 2019 to 2023.