ABSTRACT
A spectrum of three scales was implied in this new beginning, ranging from the individual cell, to the ensemble of cells bound together in a block-size building, to the entire city of three million inhabitants. The name Immeubule-villas – hardly a common term – indicates that the project was for domestic accommodation. It was one of three basic types in Le Corbusier's plan for The Contemporary City; the other two were the sixty-story towers and the redent housing blocks. Recreation and physical culture figured largely in the design: on the roof of each block were an open-air solarium and 300-meter running track. The Monastery of Sainte Marie de la Tourette was built for the Dominican Order; a mendicant order, that was also called the Order of Preachers or the Jacobins. Without specific elements of the traditional monastery building, and secularized, the monastic ecologies of modern architecture took different forms.
