A circle of low brick walls and a steep roof fractured into radial sections creates a calm, protective, and decidedly unmonumental sanctuary. The roof forms are supported inside with a web of slender steel columns and braces that implies nave and crossing, apse and tower. An octagonal glass lantern diffuses natural light through the interior.
Gerald Moorhead et al., "Prince of Peace Catholic Community Sanctuary", [Plano, Texas], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/TX-02-GF21.
Buildings of Texas: East, North Central, Panhandle and South Plains, and West, Gerald Moorhead and contributors. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2019, 192-192.
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