Iannis Xenakis
Pans de verre ondulatoires
La tourette cloister, Le corbusier,
1965 Lyon, France
© Prosper Jerominus 1995

La Tourette was commissioned by the visionary Dominican Father Marie-Alain Couturier who also collabarated with Marc Chagall, Fernand Léger and Amédée Ozenfant. The design remains pure Le Corbusier while acknowledging the influence of the Cistercian monastery at Le Thoronet in Provence. Xenakis’ most visible contribution is the spectacular pans de verre ondulatoires, the vertical windows of the main façade and the cloister. The uneven horizontal divisions between them were determined using Le Corbusier’s Modulor system, and apply musical principles of harmony and rhythm. (See photos at head of article and below). It is deliciously ironic that Le Corbusier’s once said that the history of architecture was ‘the struggle for the window’. At La Tourette he clearly gave up the struggle and delegated the windows to his second-in-command.

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In his highly influential book Le Modulor and Le Modulor 2 Le Corbusier recognised the value of Xenakis’ synthesis of architecture and music with these words: This tangency of music and architecture, evoked on countless occasions in relation to the Modulor, is now consciously expressed in a musical score by Xenakis: Mestasis, composed with the modulor, which lent its resources to musical composition.

Source: https://www.overgrownpath.com/2006/10/iannis-xenakis-composes-in-glass.html

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sainte_Marie_de_La_Tourette

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