Couvent de la tourette anish kapoor biography
Couvent de la tourette anish kapoor biography
Couvent de la tourette anish kapoor biography in urdu...
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. 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.
Couvent de la tourette anish kapoor biography in hindi
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.
Were you instructed to com