The tale of the Saint John's Abbey Church is as unlikely as the movie plot it inspired, spanning titans of architecture, ambitious monks, Vati…
Chinese American architect I.M. Pei -- a former student of Marcel Breuer -- once wrote that Saint John's Abbey Church would be considered one …
Brady Corbet, director of 'The Brutalist,' cited a book about the construction of Saint John's Abbey Church as part of his inspiration
When the monks brought in their own stained-glass window designer, it caused a rift with the abbey's architect
'The Brutalist' director Brady Corbet told AFP he has visited Saint John's, and stumbled upon a memoir about its construction while doing exte…
The church is badly in need of repairs, with some concrete starting to crumble, and steel beginning to rust
Some inevitable Hollywood hyperbole aside, an Oscar-nominated film bringing attention to their monastery's hidden treasure is a source of prid…
At a time when the Catholic Church was reforming and modernizing, the abbey saw an opportunity to emulate the pioneering 12th-century European…
On a snowy prairie in Minnesota stands a monastery like no other. A concrete trapezoid banner encasing a bell tower looms over a giant, beehiv…
Saint John's Abbey Church in Collegeville, Minnesota is an example of Brutalist architecture, and the inspiration for the architecture seen in…