Steven Joseph Schloeder received the bachelor of architecture cum laude from Arizona State University.
[citation needed] After acquiring professional registration in the State of Arizona, Schloeder received the Rotary International Graduate Scholarship and completed the Master in Architecture degree at the University of Bath, studying under Prof. Michael Brawne.
The thesis was published as Architecture in Communion [2] by Ignatius Press, San Francisco, 1998.
His dissertation, The Church of the Year 2000: A dialogue on Catholic Architecture for the Third Millennium,[3] critically examined the architectural competition for the Jubilee Church and the works of Richard Meier, Tadao Ando, Peter Eisenman, Günter Behnisch, Santiago Calatrava, and Frank Gehry.
Schloeder is a licensed architect (Arizona, Pennsylvania), practicing nationally in the United States in all aspects of Roman Catholic sacred architecture, through his firm Liturgical Environs, PC.