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Zusatztext '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 Informationen zum Autor Dr J.K. Birksted is Reader in Architecture at the Bartlett School! University College London! UK. Klappentext Le Carmel de la Paix! set on a hillside near Cluny is a convent designed by Jose Luis Sert! which is virtually unknown and little visited This book sets out the reasons for its neglect and in doing so! not only offers valuable and important new insights into Sert's architecture. Zusammenfassung Le Carmel de la Paix, set on a hillside near Cluny is a convent designed by Jose Luis Sert, which is virtually unknown and little visited This book sets out the reasons for its neglect and in doing so, not only offers valuable and important new insights into Sert's architecture. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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.
