Marcus Fairs: Why did you choose to photograph La Tourette?
Alicja Dobrucka: Funnily enough the initial idea was to have a retreat in the monastery. I wanted to familiarise myself with Le Corbusier's language in preparation for photographing his work in Chandigarh in India that I intend to visit this summer.
Dobrucka, who has previously worked on projects including a series of photographs of Mumbai's mushrooming skyscrapers, visited the convent with no preconceptions but was surprised by its idiosyncrasies and the way the architect handled light.
"I think there is a big gap between what Le Corbusier says and what his buildings do," she told Dezeen. "The formal inventions are extremely playful and contradict the cliché that form follows function."
