Le Corbusier: The Chapel of Notre Dame du Haut at Ronchamp

by Maria Antonietta Crippa (Contributor), Françoise Causse

Le Corbusier’s Chapel of Notre Dame du Haut is one of the most unique and surprising religious buildings of the 20th century. In Ronchamp, eastern France, Le Corbusier built his masterpiece on the site of a church destroyed in World War II—which itself took the place of a fourth-century Christian chapel—and transformed an ancient pilgrimage site into a dramatic work of modern art. In this insightful and gorgeously illustrated volume, Maria Antoinetta Crippa and Françoise Caussé explore the reasons Le Corbusier, one of modern architecture’s most famous exponents of urbanism, created an ethereal space of worship on a remote hill in the French countryside. Putting the chapel into historical context and exploring the controversies that surround it, the book also features stunning new photographs that capture the genius of Le Corbusier’s design.

240 pages, Hardcover

First published November 4, 2014

Reviews

[Servabo · Rating 3 out of 5]

The chapel built y Le Corbusier on the Colline de Ronchamp would have never been realised had it not been for a movement promoting modern religious art which developed in France during the 2nd half of the 20th century. Notre-Dame du Haut therefore owes its existence to an exceptional set of circumstances that stretch back through the century.