Le Corbusier
Subtitle: Le Couvent Sainte Marie de La Tourette / The Monastery of Sainte Marie de La Tourette (Le Corbusier Guides (englisch/französisch))
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Birkhäuser Basel
Published: June 1, 2001
Language: fre; eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 144
ISBN-13: 9783764362980
Subjects: Individual architects; Religious Buildings; Individual Architect; Couvent Sainte-Marie de La Tourette (L'Arbresle, France); Architecture; L'Arbresle; Architecture / General; Architektur; Le Corbusier; Non-Classifiable; Couvent Sainte-Marie de La Tou; 1887-1965; Dominican monasteries; France; Le Corbusier,
First sentence: As of the thirteenth century, Dominican monasteries became famed as Meccas for theological and philosophical thought', but were nonetheless located close to towns and cities given that the Order's initial vocation was to awaken spirituality in people.