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Le Corbusier : le Couvent Sainte Marie de La Tourette = the Monastery of Sainte Marie de La Tourette / Philippe Potié.

By:

Potié, Philippe

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English, French Series: Guides Le CorbusierPublisher: Paris : Boston : Fondation le Corbusier ; Birkhäuser Publishers, [2001]Copyright date: ©2001Edition: Bilingual original editionDescription: 136 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 23 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

3764362987
9783764362980

Other title:

The Monastery of Sainte Marie de La Tourette [Parallel title]
Monastery of Sainte Marie de La Tourette [Parallel title]

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

726.70944582 21

LOC classification:

NA5551.L37 P68 2001

Summary: "In 1952 Le Corbusier was commissioned "to dwell in the silence of men of prayer and study and to construct a church for them". The result was his impressive Convent of La Tourette, marking a significant step in modern religious architecture. Beginning with the rectangular form common to the Cirstercian monastic tradition, he created a building whose stark form contrasts beautifully with the organic elements of the interior court and the grasslands surrounding it." "The church itself is a model of simplicity, the cement has been left rough and the well located sources of light evoke a feeling of silence and reflection. The order's precept of prayer, study and reflection is aptly mirrored in the architecture. This guide provides a wealth of plans, details, photographs and information on this building which today is also a conference centre."--BOOK JACKET.

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Includes bibliographical references (page 134).

"In 1952 Le Corbusier was commissioned "to dwell in the silence of men of prayer and study and to construct a church for them". The result was his impressive Convent of La Tourette, marking a significant step in modern religious architecture. Beginning with the rectangular form common to the Cirstercian monastic tradition, he created a building whose stark form contrasts beautifully with the organic elements of the interior court and the grasslands surrounding it." "The church itself is a model of simplicity, the cement has been left rough and the well located sources of light evoke a feeling of silence and reflection. The order's precept of prayer, study and reflection is aptly mirrored in the architecture. This guide provides a wealth of plans, details, photographs and information on this building which today is also a conference centre."--BOOK JACKET.

English and French.

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