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Notre-Dame-du-Haut - Exterior Detail
Photographer: Nikolaus Büttner
Copyright: 2005
License: CC Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
Notre-Dame-du-Haut (1954)
Ronchamp, France
Le Corbusier
Perched on a hilltop, this chapel is a fantastic study of architecture as sculpture. The concrete walls are prow-like and the roof resembles an inverted crab shell. Le Corbusier wrote of the chapel, "the key is the light, and the light clarifies the forms." Criticized as a shocking piece of irreverence by the disciples of strict modernism, the chapel was a highly personal work for Le Corbuiser that allowed for emotion, rather than banishing it. Gentle light descends onto three altars from hidden skylights.
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