Architecture 14 of 23 Le Corbusier The Cloister

Interesting, but I dont like how he takes himself so seriously. I bet he tosses his little pizza thinking about claustrophobic hallways because they have so many “layers of meaning”

I don't like this building...

The best thing that can happen to this monstrosity is a large bag of explosives.
Le Corbusier and the idiots who followed his lack of style destroyed more of our towns and landscapes than WW II ever could.

There are more than 23 episodes. There are about 55 of them. I want this documentary collection so bad.

Its not the building which pose a problem, but the human behavior which develops in such places, when evil people turn people hunters, greedy thieves & seek to control other's, which is most probably why this lovely building ended up with one ordained person. So we really need to work on our human behavior to successfully house so many homeless people in so many such lovely empty buildings, so people can peaceful live a fulfilling worthy good life & enjoy the nearness of God by living in such lovely building's.

The building is a crude, cold monstrosity, sitting on a beautiful landscape. Some consider it a work of art? The exterior and the interior is it combination clumsy and brutal forms and crude details. Corbusier is one of the most overrated architects of all time. No matter how the commentator phrases it, or explains its features, it is what it is, there is no other way to describe it -terrible, intellectually pretentious. Crude lumps of concrete inside and outside!. It must have been awful to live there. I can imagine if they had picked an architect like Frank Lloyd Wright what the results could have been!

Beauty is function, perhaps the most important function of architecture. Le Corbusier's conceptualization has its place, but his works and his influence have promulgated ugly, joyless and inhuman architecture found throughout the world. I have no interest whatsoever in living within a machine.

Aujourd'hui les dominicains et les jésuites sont les tenants et les protagonistes de l'athéisme fraternel...en vogue. Ils interpellent la concrétude du vécu !!!

If it were not concrete it would’ve been way better. The way it decolorized makes the building seem old and dirty.

someone know the name of the music that start at the end?

when austerity rather than opulence was understood as a gateway to transcendence

Sorry , Do you have any ?

I still don´t understand the adoration for Le Corbusier. I understand he introduced very interesting elements in modern architecture, but still his works seem cold and inhuman, like if you were destined to live in the interior of a freezer made of concrete. Maybe a great theory maker, but it´s so difficult to live in a theory.

Disgustingly ugly. What an utter moron le Corbusier was.

It is obvious that a terrible spiritual struggle took place here between the architect and his creation. The building is innately beautiful, so it would have required great effort to ensure that the final result was ugly.

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It’s a perfect summation of everything that went aesthetically wrong with the Church in the 20th Century. Joyless, ugly, cheap, inhuman. Many have blamed this on Vatican II. But rather, Vatican II could never produce good aesthetic works in that milieu. And I say this as someone who finds great merit in much modern architecture. But the Church never seems to have favored anything other than intellectually pretentious and empty modernism, often if not typically hostile to her own history and forms. Quite sad really.

And yet somehow this is celebrated architecture. People who enjoy this should visit Russia, we have loads of Soviet concrete prison style buildings left... if you want I can invent some pseudo intellectual / philosophical backstory to justify its existence... I can even put some freaky music and sound effects to it to enhance the BS and make it more palatable.

Thanks for sharing the video though. Thumbs up.

I think I would call this early Brutalism. It is distressingly stark. I am surprised the monastery accepted this design.