1st Edition
An Architecture of Ineloquence A Study in Modern Architecture and Religion
By J.K. Birksted
Copyright 2013
180 Pages
by
Routledge
180 Pages
by
Routledge
180 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
Contents: Foreword, Jaume Freixa; Preface; ’Ordinary human beings going back and forth’ Work; Archaism; Ineloquence; Concrete as skin; Appendix: chronology of the Carmel de la Paix; Bibliography; Index.
Biography
Dr J.K. Birksted is Reader in Architecture at the Bartlett School, University College London, UK.
'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
