Convent At La Tourette By Corbusier, Lyons, France

Gaze at any modern building and you'll see breadcrumbs leading back to Le Corbusier's desk. His continuing oracular authority verges on the sacred, so why not stay in a Corbusier-designed convent? Rooms at the Convent at La Tourette (Lyon, France) are small and monastic, but the structure remains a masterpiece of inspiration, introspection, and rejuvenation. It's your chance to get closer to God andLe Corbusier. Or are they one and the same?

The Convent of La Tourette, built between 1953 and 1960 in Éveux, near Lyon, is Le Corbusier's last great work in France. It is a mature work whose strength, richness and complexity are such that in 1986 French architects chose it as the second most important contemporary work, after the Pompidou Center by Piano and Rogers.

The convent was classified as a Historic Monument in 1979, and the friars' cemetery was included in the classification in 2011. Finally on July 17, 2016, Unesco inscribed "the architectural work of Le Corbusier, an exceptional contribution to the Modern Movement" on the World Heritage List.

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