This Isn’t Your Grandparents’ Church

David E. Evans, AIA

CHURCH BUSINESS - It used to be families attended one-room church houses with musty basements for classrooms, no air conditioning, and leaky roofs — a far cry from today’s worship facilities. Now, churches are searching for creative ways to integrate spatial flexibility and high-tech features in sound technology, theatrical lighting, video projection with theatre-style . . .

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