Marcel Breuer was born in Hungary in 1902, and began his career in 1920 with Walter Gropius in the now famous Bauhaus Design Studio in Berlin. In 1938 he moved to the United States and began his architectural firm three years later in New York. Mr. Breuer has also designed the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York,

St. John’s Abbey in Collegeville, Minnesota, the UNESCO World Headquarters Building in Paris, and the IBM Research Center at LaGaude, France. He was assisted in this project by his associate, Herbert Beckhard. The architects attempted to capture in this church the magnificence of God in the tradition of the Gothic architecture of the Middle Ages.

The front of the building is called the “banner” and rises eight stories from the floor level.
Originally, the architect had suggested a limestone facing on the east and west face of the building. Fourteen thousand tons of concrete and steel have been molded and shaped creating one of the most striking architectural forms of this century.