Faith & Form Religious Art & Architecture Awards: These Are the 2018 Winners

The results of the International Awards Program for Religious Art & Architecture are in: from a field of 127 submissions this year, 35 projects were selected by Faith & Form magazine to receive top honors.

The jury, comprised of jury chair Reverend W. Joseph Mann, architect Kathleen Lane, liturgical designer Christine Reinhard, artist Margaret Adams Parker, and architect Stephen C. Pickard, noted an increased preference for natural materials in worship spaces and creative design solutions to tackle constrained budgets.

Keep scrolling for a small selection of our favorite winning projects this year.

New Facilities Honor: Bahá’í Temple of South America (cover picture)
Santiago, Chile
Hariri Pontarini Architects

New Facilities Award: Saint Mary’s Student Chapel
Albany, California
Mark Cavagnero Associates Architects

New Facilities Award: The Pavilion at Grace Episcopal Church
Providence, Rhode Island
Centerbrook Architects and Planners

Liturgical/Interior Design Award: The Tent of Meeting, Centro de Espiritualidad San Ignacio
Salamanca, Spain
Cherrez y Cantera

Unbuilt Works Award: Saints Peter and Paul Chapel
Austin, Texas
Danze Blood Architects

New Facilities Award: Shoraku-ji
Tokyo, Japan
Toru Kashihara Architects

New Facilities Award: Snyder Sanctuary
Boca Raton, Florida
Newman Architects

New Facilities Honor: Rural Chapel
Lafferty, Ohio
Midland Architecture

New Facilities Honor: The SAJ Urban Chapel of St Ignatius
Pamplona, Spain
Cherrez y Cantera

Student Work Award: Building as Prayer: Campus Sukkah, University of Hartford
West Hartford, Connecticut
University of Hartford Department of Architecture Students

Student Work Award: A Silent Space
Copenhagen, Denmark
Lafina Eptaminitaki

Liturgical/Interior Design Award: Serenity Room, UC San Diego, Jacobs Medical Center
La Jolla, California
Yazdani Studio of CannonDesign

Liturgical/Interior Design Award: Prayer Space
Gilbert, Arizona
DeBartolo Architects

Renovation: Hasshoden Columbarium, Ryusenji Temple
Saitama, Japan
Yukio Asari/Love Architecture Inc.

Student Work Honor: Fishers of Men & Manannán Mac Lir Installation
Cong, County Mayo, Ireland
Travis Price Architects with The Catholic University of America

The 2019 awards program will open for submissions on April 1st this year.