Detail View: Archivision Base to Module 9: Notre-Dame-du-Haut
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Preferred Title:
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Notre-Dame-du-Haut
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Alternate Title:
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Chapelle Notre-Dame-du-Haut de Ronchamp
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Image View:
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View depicting the southeast corner
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Creator:
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Le Corbusier (Swiss architect, 1887-1965)
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Location:
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site: Ronchamp, Franche-Comté, France
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Location Note:
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F-70250 Ronchamp
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Date:
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1950-1954 (creation)
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Cultural Context:
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French
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Style Period:
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Brutalist; Modernist; Modern
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Work Type 1:
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pilgrimage church
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Classification:
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architecture
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Material:
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masonry; concrete
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Technique:
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construction (assembling)
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Subjects:
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architectural exteriors; Pilgrims and pilgrimages
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Description:
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"Surrealism is a key to other late works of Le Corbusier, most notably the church at Ronchamp, France, of 1950-1954... Notre-Dame-du-Haut was a more extreme statement of Le Corbusier's late style. Programmatically,...the church is simple--an oblong nave, two side entrances, an axial main altar, and three chapels beneath towers--as is its structure, with rough masonry walls faced with whitewashed Gunite (sprayed concrete) and a roof of contrasting béton brut [raw concrete]. Formally and symbolically, however, this small building, which is sited atop a hillside with access from the south, is immensely powerful and complex." pp 542-524 (Source: Trachtenberg, Marvin; Hyman, Isabelle; Architecture, from prehistory to post-modernism : the Western tradition, Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1986 (0810910772))
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Collection:
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Archivision Base Collection
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Identifier:
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1A1-LC-R-A6
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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