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Couvent Sainte-Marie De La Tourette, In the Name of Concrete
Features - Art and Architecture
In 1953, Le Corbusier designed a brutalist monastery that today houses both friars and contemporary art exhibits.
Words by Olivier Boucreux
Photography Marion Berrin
A monastery made of reinforced concrete sounds like an oxymoron.
It has to be seen – or, even better, lived in – to be believed.
Couvent de la tourette anish kapoor biography
Dominican friar and art historian Marc Chauveau has made his home in this light-filled brutalist building designed by Le Corbusier for the past 20 years. Learn more about how this world heritage site teaches visitors to discover buildings and people in a similar way: first the rigorous structure, then the inner light.
Do you remember your first impression when you arrived here in 2001?
MC I was so excited!
I told myself that I was looking at a major work. Nothing about it charmed me, but I thought it was great – great in the sense of powerful.
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