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- Les auteurs
- 23 x 28.5 cm
- 272 pages
- 240 black and white and color illustrations
- ISBN: 978-2-9092-8324-1
- Text in French only
Between 1906 and 1944, architect and Benedictine monk Dom Bellot built dozens of monasteries, convents and churches in polychrome brick and reinforced concrete, in France, Belgium, the Netherlands, England and Canada. Entering the abbey of Solesmes in 1902, he was responsible four years later for developing plans for the monasteries of Quarr in England and Oosterhout in the Netherlands to house his community, who were reduced to exile by anticlerical laws. Favoring simple materials and a structure with parabolic arches resting on widely spaced pillars which leave the altar visible from everywhere, his powerful and original works, some of which evoke Gaudí and the Catalan architects of the beginning of the century, quickly resulted in him being considered the renovator of contemporary religious architecture. For the first time, through his drawings, preserved at the Saint-Paul de Wisques abbey in Pas-de-Calais, and photographs by Dominique Delaunay, this book reveals the striking beauty of the achievements of this architect, European by force of destiny.