Architecture of Silence

by David [photographs] with text by Terryl N. Kinder Heald

2000 151 pages eng

"Cistercian architecture draws together the fundamentals of masonry and geometry to create a harmony of stone and light, of uncluttered interior volumes and modest external masses. The buildings and ruins that remain today are immensely, almost unspeakably refined. Upon entering le Thoronet or Senan…