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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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, eastern 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, a church that itself had been built on the site of a fourth-century Christian chapel, 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 Francoise Causse explore the particular set of circumstances that led one of the last centurys most famous exponents of urbanism to create an ethereal space of worship on a remote hill in the French countryside. As well as putting the chapel into its historical context and exploring the controversies and arguments that have surrounded it, the book, part of a series which began with Matisse: The Chapel at Vence (RA Publications, 2013), features stunning new photographs that capture the genius of Le Corbusiers design.

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• Editore: Royal Academy of Arts
• Data di pubblicazione: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1907533923
• ISBN 13: 9781907533921
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 239