Word: cloisters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...built as a memorial to the Harmonists, a German Separatist sect that assured its own extinction by faithfully practicing celibacy. But to Johnson it suggests the stave churches of Norway and the stupa forms of India. Without its name, the Nuclear Reactor Building in Israel could be a medieval cloister, topped by a huge, 20-sided tower that seems to change its shape with the movement of the sun. In the Four Seasons Restaurant-as hedonistic as a Caesar's court-light ripples up and down aluminum loop window shades, plays upon the slender rods of the stair rails...
...roof of the monastery is a terrace, seeded with grass and surrounded by a high parapet so that those on the terrace cannot see the ground below but must look out toward the horizon. At first Corbusier planned to make this the cloister, where the monks walk and meditate, but abandoned the idea because "it would be so beautiful that the monks would use it for an escape, which might prove perilous to their religious life." But he urged the Dominicans to "go up there from time to time. Let them allow you to go up as a reward...
...founded in the middle of the 12th century by monks imported from the Fontfroide monastery in France. As always with Cistercian monasteries, the monks had picked their site with a view to maintaining a balance between the spiritual and the useful. In the center of the main cloister bubbled a pure natural spring. The surrounding fields were and are fertile, and the blue and silver mountain peaks cupping the high valley lift the spirit as well. The Cistercians did full honor to the site with an architecture that was noble in scale, harmonious in proportion and austere in detail. Although...