Our Lady Of The Prairies
From the exterior, the 2,200-square-metre building is an enigma. Surrounded by the grid of prairie fields, it is an austere, somewhat Corbusian, rectangular volume, set beside neatly ordered but absolutely ordinary barns and outbuildings. Today, its façade is partially hidden by 40-year-old trees: tan-coloured, clad in brick and rough stucco, with a staccato scattering of rectangular windows and some deeply cut openings, as well as a few geometric projections beyond the perimeter walls and protruding above its parapet.
The rigorously composed complex is shown in a postcard. Prairie Agri Photo, Carmen, Manitoba. Courtesy of Trappist Monks of Our Lady of The Prairies
The building?s story dates back to the mid 1970s, when the expansion of Winnipeg?s southern suburbs threatened the seclusion of the Trappist farmer-monks at St. Norbert. The brothers made the decision to move to a large farm an hour east, near Holland, Manitoba. Unsure how to engage an architect, the cloistered, French-speaking monks sought advice from the University of Manitoba?s Faculty of Architecture. They were introduced to one of the school?s professors?French born and trained Jacques Collin (1921-2001)?a gifted teacher and superbly talented designer, but an architect who had built relatively little. Completed in 1978 with Smith Carter as architect of record, Collin?s remarkable building remains largely undocumented and unpublished. Despite the modernist abstraction of the exterior, Our Lady of The Prairie...
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