After running into resistance from the Fondation Le Corbusier, a fierce guard of the architect's reputation, Renzo Piano has created a new convent for the Clarisses (or Poor Clare Sisters) on a French hillside below Le Corbusier's famous chapel of Notre Dame du Haut.
Piano also had some initial reservations but the abbess, Sister Brigitte de Singly, finally persuaded him to accept the commission reminding him of the long tradition architects have had with the church. Read more...
Images: A concealed slit in the wall floods the chapel with daylight, Renzo Piano with a priest in the chapel and a nun in her Renzo Piano-designed room
