Inspired by Le Thoronet, a Cistercian monastery in the South of France, Le Corbusier designs the convent as a self-contained world that would accommodate the unique lifestyle of a community of Dominican friars. The concrete building contains one hundred individual cells, as well as a church among the program. The project features many of the structural and decorative elements that Le Corbusier developed during his career, as the vertical brise-soleils used in India, “light cannons” in the masonry walls, and opened windows separated by the Modulor-controlled division.
Sainte Marie de la Tourette is a Dominican monastery in Éveux, near Lyon, famous for its iconic architecture designed by Le Corbusier in 1953
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Architectural drawing/ observation of La tourette
Analisis de Obra. Convento La Tourette. Le Corbusier.
Kloster Sainte-Marie de La Tourette
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Dominican Monastery of La Tourette
Le Corbusier designed Sainte Marie de La Tourette Monastery in 1960. Rough concrete stained by time gives an exterior unfamiliar to religious structures.
Interior of the church belonging to the Sainte Marie de la Tourette Monastery near Eveux, France. The whole complex was designed by Le Corbusier. Especially this interior shows that Japanese architect Tadao Ando has visited this place as a young man and drew a lot of inspiration from it. The bare concrete, the ascetic space,…
light cannons Sainte Marie de La Tourette, Éveux-sur-Arbresle, France. [Architect: Le Corbusier and Iannis Xenakis]
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Couvent de la Tourette
"Il sacro nei dettagli" July 2016. Monthly illustration for "Dove" italian travel magazine (RCS Media group), since April 2015. // Da aprile 2015 una mia rubrica illustrata sul mensile di viaggi DOVE di Rizzoli/Corriere della Sera.
The Divine Architect “I am content to place humankind at the centre of Creation. We are complex enough, interesting enough... I find the soul a valuable concept, a statement of the dignity of a human life and of the unutterable gravity of human action and experience.” So says Christian philosopher Marilynne Robinson. Fernand Pouillon was…
Le Corbusier Convento Sainte Marie de La Tourette. plantea una tensión entre lo individual y lo colectivo
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