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Sainte-Marie de La Tourette near Lyon is completed as a Dominican convent of cells, a church, and a public-accessible monastery of béton

La Tourette, built 1953–60 at Éveux, stacks monks’ cells, a cloister of sorts, and a dim church in béton, with Xenakis’s undulating pans de verre. In the causal graph this event strengthens Social Cohesion, a driver that strengthens Having a say in government — an improving welfare path.

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La Tourette, built 1953–60 at Éveux, stacks monks’ cells, a cloister of sorts, and a dim church in béton, with Xenakis’s undulating pans de verre. He did not take vows. Cohesion here is a religious community’s house, later also a visitor and cultural site, without dating the Fact to later cultural programming. Archival locator: Couvent Sainte-Marie de La Tourette — official site at https://www.couventdelatourette.fr/ (opens in a new tab) (Couvent de La Tourette). Independent locator: Fondation Le Corbusier — English portal at https://www.fondationlecorbusier.fr/en/ (opens in a new tab) (Fondation Le Corbusier).

Context

Ronchamp is the chapel on a hill. This is a working convent. Philips Pavilion 1958 is Xenakis-plus-LC at Brussels, another row. Later conferences at La Tourette are reception. Independent locator: Fondation Le Corbusier — English portal at https://www.fondationlecorbusier.fr/en/ (opens in a new tab) (Fondation Le Corbusier).

The contribution type is direct. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself.

Why it matters

A completed Dominican house of a new form is a cohesion path. High confidence on 1960. Later tourism is not the act.

Shared responsibility is part of Sainte-Marie de La Tourette near Lyon is completed as a Dominican convent of cells, a church, and a public-accessible monastery of béton. Naming Le Corbusier does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from 1960-01-01 to any measured indicator is not treated as zero. Alternative explanations — weather, other armies, later statutes, or independent cultural change — remain live where the sources do not close them.

Who was responsible

Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.

  • Le Corbusier

    Person

    Direct responsibility

    responsibility level 0.36 · verified

    He designed the convent for the Dominicans, with Iannis Xenakis in the atelier on the undulating glass. Direct as architect; complex liturgical client.

What changed

Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.

    1. FactSainte-Marie de La Tourette near Lyon is completed as a Dominican convent of cells, a church, and a public-accessible monastery of béton
    2. strengthensDriverSocial Cohesion
    3. strengthensIndicators (2)Having a say in government
    Improving path

    impact weight 0.35 · Effect from 1 January 1960 · verified

    A completed monastery that is also a visitable community of study is a cohesion path of high confidence on 1953–60, distinct from Ronchamp’s pilgrimage hill.

    • Having a say in government

      via Social Cohesion

      Better

      Strengthens · Relationship strength 0.16 (weight 0.35 × strength 0.45)

      Observed

      29.8% of population aged 16-65 years · 8.13 below the normal line (2023)

      Worse than normal

      Two readings: 30.2% of population aged 16-65 years (2021) and 29.8% of population aged 16-65 years (2023).

      20212023

      Above normal = better

    • Rule of Law Gap from the Highest Governance Score

      via Social Cohesion

      Better

      Weakens · Relationship strength 0.16 (weight 0.35 × strength 0.45)

      Observed

      43.9 Score · 43.9 above the normal line (2024)

      Worse than normal

      26 readings, 1996–2024: rose from 43 Score to 43.9 Score.

      Normal is zero · any amount = worse

Evidence

The sources behind this fact and its verification state.

Verified2 sources on file
  1. 1.Couvent Sainte-Marie de La Tourette — official siteCouvent de La Tourette · High credibility · verified
  2. 2.Fondation Le Corbusier — English portalFondation Le Corbusier · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish

The convent’s official site independently presents the building. Fondation independently lists it among late works. Britannica independently treats the 1950s religious buildings. No unique 1960 novitiate census is invented.

Established: 1953–60 La Tourette as his (with atelier). Not established: a unique vocation series. Conventional 1960 completion. Not Ronchamp as this title.

If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here.

Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, museums, and adaptations are not converted into extra lifetime acts.

Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. Mixed effects of Sainte-Marie de La Tourette near Lyon is completed as a Dominican convent of cells, a church, and a public-accessible monastery of béton are separate paths.

Causal path

How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.

  1. ActorLe Corbusier
  2. contributed toFactSainte-Marie de La Tourette near Lyon is completed as a Dominican convent of cells, a church, and a public-accessible monastery of béton
  3. strengthensDriverSocial Cohesion
  4. strengthensIndicatorHaving a say in government

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Factrail. (2026). Sainte-Marie de La Tourette near Lyon is completed as a Dominican convent of cells, a church, and a public-accessible monastery of béton. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/lc-la-tourette

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Accessed 15 October 2026.

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