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dc.coverage.spatialSite: Eveux, Rhône-Alpes, Franceen_US
dc.coverage.temporal1953-1960 (creation)en_US
dc.creatorLe Corbusieren_US
dc.creatorXenakis, Iannisen_US
dc.date1953-1960en_US
dc.date.accessioned2013-08-01T16:17:58Z
dc.date.available2013-08-01T16:17:58Z
dc.date.issued1953-1960en_US
dc.identifier228080en_US
dc.identifier.otherarchrefid: 2401en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1721.3/135864
dc.descriptionStructures raised on pilotis; [The buildings contain a hundred sleeping rooms for teachers and students, study halls, a hall for work and one for recreation, a library and a refectory. There is also a church, where the monks practice, and the circulation, which connects all the parts (the achievement of the traditional cloister form is rendered impossible here by the slope of terrain)]. In La Tourette, the public spaces, particularly the central atrium, are stimulated by the rhythmic play of the lines of the “musical walls” or “pans de verre ondulatoire,” (designed by Xenakis) whereas the static concrete box of the adjacent church has vertical perforations that reach up behind the altar. The lateral chapels are animated with machine guns of light (mitraillettes à lumière) painted in vibrant colors in the crypt and the sacristy. In 1960, speaking of this convent, Le Corbusier evoked a theme that he had been working on since the 1940s: "When a work reaches its maximum level of intensity, proportion, quality of execution, and perfection, a phenomenon of ineffable space occurs: the places radiate, physically they radiate. They become what I call “ineffable space,” that is to say, an impact based not on dimensions but on perfection. This is about the ineffable domain." Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.oxfordartonline.com/ (accessed 5/7/2011)en_US
dc.format.mediumrough reinforced concreteen_US
dc.rights© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.en_US
dc.subjectarchitectureen_US
dc.subjectmusicen_US
dc.subjectDominicansen_US
dc.subjectTwentieth centuryen_US
dc.subjectModernisten_US
dc.titleMonastery of Sainte-Marie de la Touretteen_US
dc.title.alternativeCouvent de La Touretteen_US
dc.title.alternativeConvent of La Touretteen_US
dc.typeimageen_US
dc.rights.accessLicensed for educational and research use by the MIT community onlyen_US
dc.identifier.vendorcode1A1-LC-LT-B40en_US
vra.culturalContextFrenchen_US
vra.techniqueconstruction (assembling)en_US
vra.worktypemonasteryen_US
vra.worktypechurchen_US
vra.worktypecloisteren_US
dc.contributor.displayIannis Xenakis (French architect, 1922-2001); Le Corbusier (Swiss architect, 1887-1965)en_US


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