On the surface at least, it is hard to imagine a more incongruous combination of architect and client: the London-based John Pawson, known for his starkly Minimal and elegant temples to material culture, and a community of Cistercian monks whose lives revolve around prayer, study, and physical labor. But just such an odd couple has created a luminous monastery in a remote corner of Bohemia, the first built in the Czech Republic since the 1989 Velvet Revolution ended four decades of religious suppression.
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