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								  |  | Couvent Sainte-Marie da la Tourette 
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| ARCHITECTURE  |  | Religious buildings Monasteries and convents |  |  
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| ARCHITECTURE  |  | Religious buildings Churches and places of worship |  |   
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                                    | Monument historique Patrimoine du XXe siècle
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        | BIBILIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES |  |  |  |  |  |   
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                                    | Pierre Boulais, Luc Moreau, La Tourette. Un couvent de Le Corbusier, Pierre et Etienne Boulais, Le Touvet 2009 |  
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                                    | Helio Pinon, "Cerrado por reformas/Closed for refurbishment", Quaderns d'arquitectura i urbanisme 253, primavera/spring 2007, pp. 118-123 |  
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                                    | Kazuyoshi Miyamoto (photo), Jin Kurita (text), Le Corbusier. Monastery of Sainte La Tourette de La Tourette 1953-60. France, Banana Books, Tokyo 2007 |  
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                                    | Xumeu Mestre, "El error como genialdad/Error as a stroke of genius", Quaderns d'arquitectura i urbanisme 252, invierno/winter 2006, pp. 132-137 |  
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                                    | Philippe Potié, Le Corbusier. Le Couvent Sainte Marie da la Tourette, Birkhauser, Basel 2001 |  
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                                    | Lorenzo Gresleri, "Come leggere disciplinarmente il moderno. Convento di 'Santa Maria della Tourette', Evaux sur l'Arbresle/How to read the modern in a disciplined way: the monastery of St-Marie-de-la-Tourette, Evaux-sur-l'Arbresle", Parametro 225, settembre-ottobre/september-october 1998, pp. 53-61 |  
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                                    |  Giovanni Denti, Le Corbusier. Il Convento di La Tourette, Alinea, Firenze 1988 |  
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                                    | Sergio Ferro, Chérif Kebbal, Philippe Potié, Cyrille Simonnet, Le Corbusier. Le Couvent de La Tourette, Parenthèses, "Monographies d'architecture", Marseille 1988 |  
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                                    | Hans de Soeten, Thijs Edelkoort, La Tourette and Le Corbusier. The Architecture of the Monastery and the Architect's Attitude, Delft University Press, Delft 1987 |  
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                                    | Bruno Zevi, Spazî dell'architettura moderna, Einaudi, Torino 1973, tav. 164-165 [III. I maestri del periodo razionalista] |  
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                                    | Yukio Futagawa (ed., photo), Arata Isozaki (text), Couvent Sainte Marie de la Tourette Eveux-sur-l'Arbresle, France. 1957-60, A.D.A. Edita, Tokyo 1971 |  
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                                    | Anton Henze (ed.), Bernhard Moosbrugger (photo), La Tourette. The Le Corbusier Monastery, George Wittenborn, New York 1966/Lund Humphries, London 1966 |  
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                                    | O. Grossi, "Le Corbusier and La Tourette", Progressive Architecture, august 1961, pp. 118-123 |  
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                                    | "Dominican monastery La Tourette, Eveux-sur-Arbresle, near Lyons, France. Le Corbusier", Architectural Review june 1961, pp. 400-410 |  
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                                    | Le Corbusier, "Couvent de la Tourette, Eveux, près de Lyon, France, Le Corbusier/Dominican monastery La Tourette, Eveux, near Lyon. Le Corbusier", L'Architecture d'Aujourd'hui 96, juin-juillet/juin- july 1961, pp. 2-15 (2-21) |  
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                                    | Jean Petit (ed.), Un couvent de Le Corbusier, Les Editions de Minuit, 1961 |  
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                                    | "Dominican monastery La Tourette, Eveux-sur-Arbresle, near Lyons, France. Le Corbusier", Architectural Record, july 1960, pp. 113-122 |  
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                                    | Aldo Rossi, "Il Convento de La Tourette, di Le Corbusier", Casabella Continuità 246, 1960, pp. 4-19 |  |  
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                                    | Architettura e paesaggio nell'opera di Le Corbusier. La Saint-Baume, La Tourette, Ronchamp, Modena, Foro Boario, 18 october/2 november 2008 |  |  
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