Inspired by the boldly expressionistic designs of the Sarasota School of Architecture in Florida, Helfrich and Grantham here echo Victor Lundy’s swooping concave gables (readily apparent at his St. Paul’s Lutheran Church Fellowship Hall of 1959 in Sarasota). St. Luke’s features an upturned ship’s hull as a sculptural open-peaked nave roof rising to heaven. An equally distinctive horizontal base of red brick sweeps around the entire complex, which includes a single-story cloister containing offices and classrooms and a meditative garden entered through an artistic geometric screen. Notable details include use of vertical boarding with recessed joints inventively inverting traditional board-and-batten siding on the interior cloister walls, and floor-to-ceiling windows on the north-facing exterior walls. The original 1902 hipped-roof Gothic church sits next door and its parish hall is accessed through the rear of the court.