Le Corbusier: The Chapel of Notre-Dame Du Haut at Ronchamp - Rilegato

Crippa, Maria Antonietta; Causse, Francoise

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ISBN 10: 1907533923 ISBN 13: 9781907533921

Casa editrice: Royal Academy of Arts, 2017

Riassunto

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.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Maria Antonietta Crippa is an architect and professor at Politecnico di Milano.

Françoise Caussé has been professor at Écoles normales d’instituteurs de Douai and Mont-de-Marsan and at Institut universitaire de formation des maîtres d’Aquitaine.

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Le Corbusiers Chapel of Notre Dame du Haut in Ronchamp, western France, is one of the most unique and surprising religious buildings of the twentieth century. Replacing an earlier church that had been destroyed in the Second World War, and which, in turn, had been built on the site of a fourth-century Christian chapel, at Ronchamp Le Corbusier transformed an ancient pilgrimage site into a dramatic work of modern art. In this insightful and beautifully illustrated volume, Maria Antonietta Crippa and Françoise Caussé explore the particular set of circumstances that led to one of the twentieth centurys most famous exponents of urbanism creating an ethereal space of worship perched atop a remote hill in the French countryside. Putting the chapel into its historical context and exploring the controversies and arguments that have surrounded and continue to surround it, the book, which follows on in a series from Matisse: The Chapel at Vence (RA Publications, 2013), also features stunning new photographs that capture the genius of Le Corbusiers design

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Royal Academy of Arts
• Data di pubblicazione: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1907533923
• ISBN 13: 9781907533921
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Lingua: Inglese
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 239
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile