Le Corbusier
Subtitle: the Chapel of Notre-Dame du Haut at Ronchamp
By: Maria Antonietta Crippa, Françoise Caussé ; [translation, Caroline Beamish]
Edition: English edition.
Publisher: Royal Academy of Arts
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 239
ISBN-13: 9781907533921
Subjects: Buildings, structures; Notre-Dame-du-Haut (Chapel : Ronchamp, France); Criticism and interpretation; Pictorial works
Work titles: Le Corbusier, Ronchamp. English
Description: "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 Causse 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."--Publisher's description.
Notes: "An expanded version of this text was originally published in Italian as Le Corbusier: Ronchamp, La cappella di Notre-Dame du Haut by Editoriale Jaca Book SpA, Milan, 2014"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references (page 237) and index.

Translation from the original Italian and French.
Table of contents: title: Contexts / Maria Antonietta Crippa; title: Commissioning Le Corbusier / Françoise Caussé; title: A patient search / Maria Antonietta Crippa; title: Space, form and colour in light / Maria Antonietta Crippa; title: At the crossroads of humanity / Maria Antonietta Crippa; title: Ronchamp and the sacred today / Maria Antonietta Crippa.