Edward Sövik
American architect and author, specializing in churches
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Edward Anders Sövik, also Sovik, was an American architect and author. His most influential book, Architecture for Worship, covered the modern period in church architecture. Early life Sövik was born in 1918 in Henan province, China, a child of missionaries. After 17 years in China, Edward moved to the United States with his older sister and twin brother to attend college at St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota. Professor Arnold Flaten influenced Edward to study art; Flaten had designed the Art Barn on campus. Sövik graduated in 1939. Edward moved to New York City to study painting at the Art Students League, then returned to Saint Paul, Minnesota, in 1940 to study theology at Luther Seminary with the hope to serve God through art.
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