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    Sainte Marie de La Tourette

    Convent in Rhône-Alpes, France

    Sainte Marie de La Tourette is a Dominican Orderpriory, located on a hillside near Lyon, France, designed by the architect Le Corbusier, the architect’s final building. The design of the building began in May 1953 and completed in 1961. The committee that decided the creation of the building considered that the primary duty of the monastery should be the spiritual awakening of the people and in particular the inhabitants of nearby areas. As a result, the monastery was constructed in Eveux-sur-Arbresle, which is just 25 km from Lyon and is accessible by train or car.

    In July 2016, the building and sixteen other works by Le Corbusier were inscribed as UNESCO World Heritage Sites because of their outstanding testimony to the development of modern architecture.[1]

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    The monastery consists of four perimeter heavy rectangular structures that create a closed interior space. T

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     Name Charles-Édouard Jeanneret
        
     Born October 6 , 1887
        
     Died  August 27, 1965
        
     Nationality  France (born in Switzerland)
        
     School INTERNATIONAL STYLE
        
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    Le Corbusier (né Charles-Édouard Jeanneret) was born in Switzerland, although he studied and worked primarily in France. In 1905, when still in his teens, Le Corbusier was commissioned bygd one of the trustees at the school where he studied—La Chaux-deFonds—to design the Villa Fallet. Charles l’

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    The Convent of La Tourette is Le Corbusier's final building completed in Europe, and is also thought by many to be his most unique program. It was built to be a self-contained world for a community of silent monks, and to accommodate the unique and specific lifestyle of the monks, the monastery is made of one hundred individual cells, a communal library, a refectory, a rooftop cloister, a church, and classrooms.

    The one request to the architect by Father Marie-Alain Couturier was that he "create a silent dwelling for one hundred bodies and one hundred hearts."

    The architecture of Le Corbusier is distinguishable for its fem key elements, which are present in the late Modernist style of the Convent of La Tourette.

    The more obvious of these in this specific project are the pilotis, or load-bearing columns, which line the inside walls and o