An Architecture of Ineloquence: A Study in Modern Architecture and Religion (Ashgate Studies in Architecture) - Hardcover

Birksted, J.K.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0754678016 ISBN 13: 9780754678014

Publisher: Routledge, 2013

Synopsis

Set on a hillside near Cluny, in a region associated with religious institutions and sacred architecture (including Le Corbusier's La Tourette), Le Carmel de la Paix, designed by José Luis Sert, remains tranquilly unvisited and quietly erased from architectural history. Why? This unusual convent falls outside the standard categories of Sert's architecture and has been overlooked in most publications about his work. As J.K. Birksted explains, the design and...

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Dr J.K. Birksted is Reader in Architecture at the Bartlett School, University College London, UK.

Review

'Ultimately, Sert and his client produced an architectural work that Birksted describes as "ineloquent," a word he uses to convey muteness, blankness, emptiness, devoid of the symbols and pomp that one typically associates with religious architecture. This is as the nuns wished their convent to be-simple, spare, ordinary, ascetic-in order to prepare oneself for the divine.' Journal of Architectural Education

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0754678016
• ISBN 13: 9780754678014
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 180