Éveux-sur-Arbresle - Couvent de la Tourette

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As in many religious buildings, light is used in symbolic ways. Le Corbusier employs light "cannons" to specifically direct light and tinges it with color reflected from and onto painted surfaces to reinforce the symbolic and narrative aspects of the building as one travels though it. The pervasive use of robust reinforced cast in place concrete complete with the visible "scars" of its form work, while consistent with other architectural preoccupations at this time of his life, also gives the building its tone of abject poverty.