Literature Review- Spiritual Architecture of Le Corbusier

APA References	Keywords	Theme of Paper	Definition	Method
Dennis,Mc, N. The Institute For Sacred Architecture : Couturier Le Corbusier, And the Monastery Of La Tourette.	Sacred art, God, Holy spirit, ages of faith	Almost Religious	Couturier made the Le Corbusier the obvious choice to design a monastery rooted first in modernist art, secondarily in religion. By mistaking the “spirit of the age,” or Zeitgeist, for the Holy Spirit, Couturier assisted in the production of structures by famous modernist architects at the expense of the essential features of Catholic artistic work.	Couturier sought to renew sacred art and architecture in much the same way Le Corbusier sought to renew architecture: through the utilization of powerful contemporary forms and materials. As a remedy, Couturier placed his trust in artists, believing that all true art revealed something of the sacred.
Jonathan Glancey, Faith Hope & Clarity [Website] Retrieved from [http://www.theguardian.com]	Inherited spirit, epic & mythic, peace, heal	Legacy of the ‘secular monk’ of modernism	Le Corbusier’s works are clean, white, stripped-to-essentials and apparently wholly new architecture reflected the industrial spirit of the times; his work also inherited the spirit, and even the proportions, of ancient Greek temples and the great cathedrals of the middle ages. Forget the traditionalists and revivalists: his was the true architectural faith.	His last design, a hospital in Venice had a wonderful view towards lagoon as if the light of the sea might heal the patients. The light spirited delight of Ron Champ pared down architecture is a powerful experience.
Jaime Lara, Spiritual Sparks [Website] Retrieved from [http://faithandform.com]	Religious Art, Social ritual, Worship space, heaven and earth	The Hispanic aesthetic in religious art and architecture	The space in which one meets these visual or verbal icons, with their corresponding colors and shapes, is nothing less than a powerhouse, a holy hot spot wherein heaven and earth make contact and where spiritual sparks fly	The atrium functions as gathering and fellowship space, with the importance that Latin Americans place on family and on social rituals of greeting and leave-taking, the revival of this medieval feature has been a godsend
Le Corbusier, Towards a New Architecture	Light, geometry, shades, Wall, space	Guiding Principles	The architect, by his arrangement of forms, realizes an order is a pure creation of his spirit; by forms and shapes he affects our senses to an acute degree and provokes plastic emotions; by the relationships which he creates he wakes profound echoes in us, he gives us the measure of an order which we feel to be in accordance with that of our world, he determines the various movements of our heart and our understanding, it is then that we experience the sense of beauty.	The elements of architecture are light and shade, walls and space. Arrangement is the gradation of aims, the classification of intentions. Architecture goes beyond utilitarian need, it is a plastic thing, the spirit of order, a unity of intention. The sense of relationships; architecture deals with quantities, passion can create drama out of inert stone.
Benson P. H. Lau, Sacred Concrete: The Churches of Le Corbusier	Ethical, philosophical, theological notion of simplicity	Le Corbusier’s religious thinking and architecture.	Explores the tense political relationship between Le Corbusier’s view of religion and that of the Church, as manifested in his radical sacred architecture and the work of other architects who drew inspiration from it. Extensive and original research into the roots of Le Corbusier’s sacred ideals and the architectural merits of the associated built forms.	The application of the ethical, philosophical and theological notions of simplicity, poverty and truth in church design; the role of the interplay between space and light as well as the processional route; and the role of art and artists at the service of the Church are all well explained. This is followed by an investigation of the evolution of Le Corbusier’s thinking on religion, from his early upbringing through his spiritual incubation in Paris in the early 20th century and his final maturity.