Nuns' story: the Carmel de la Paix convent, Mazille, in
Burgundy, in J. K. Birksted's exploration An Architecture
of Ineloquence: José Lluis Sert's Carmel de la Paix: A study in
modern architecture and religion. The convent was designed and
built from 1968 to 1972. The nuns asked for something "ordinary",
but had extraordinary requirements. The result, "quietly erased
from architectural history", challenges basic Modernist principles
besides avoiding conventional architectural ways of evoking
"holiness", the author argues (Ashgate, £60 (£54);
978-0-7546-7801-4)