Architecture of Truth

A pictorial celebration of the magnificent architecture and stonework of the 12th-century Cistercian abbey of Le Thoronet, Provence. Hervé's black and white photographs, taken during the 1950s, are each accompanied by brief extracts from biblical texts, psalms, prayers and quotations by contemporary Cistercians, notably Bernard of Clairvaux. The architect John Pawson supplies the afterword.