Ronchamp cathedral le corbusier biography

Church in Ronchamp, France

Notre-Dame du Haut (English: Our Lady of the Heights; full name in French: Chapelle Notre-Dame du Haut) is a Roman Catholicchapel in Ronchamp, France.

Built in 1955, it is one of the finest examples of the architecture of Franco-Swiss architect Le Corbusier. The chapel is a working religious building and is under the guardianship of the private foundation Association de l’Œuvre de Notre-Dame du Haut.^[2] It attracts 80,000 visitors each year.^[2] In 2016, it was inscribed on the UNESCOWorld Heritage List in along with sixteen other works by Le Corbusier, because of its importance to the development of modernist architecture.^[3]

History

Notre-Dame du Haut is commonly thought of as a more extreme design of Le Corbusier's late style.

Commissioned by the Association de l'Œuvre Notre-Dame du Haut, the chapel is a simple design with two entrances, a main altar, and three chapels beneath towers. Although