FRANCE – Expo “from sketch to site”, Renzo Piano’s Ronchamp monastery

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Religious heritage has many faces – but few quite so young as the Monastère des Clarisses in Ronchamp, designed by the illustrious architect Renzo Piano, and inaugurated in 2011. An exhibition currently shows the different stages in the architect’s work, creating what he has described as “a place of silence, prayer, peace, and interior joy”, and a building in continuous interchange with nature.

The exhibition is on until November 2nd.

Read the full article in French here.