Ronchamp de le corbusier biography

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    • Notre-Dame-du-Haut Chapel

    Ronchamp, France, 1950-1955

    « People often ask me what my secrets are for Ronchamp. Is there nothing but a harmonic search for the problems posed? The gospel: an ethic; the place: the four horizons; the means: the crab shell. »

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    The Notre-Dame-du-Haut Chapel is a religious building intended to receive pilgrims. Standing on the hill of Bourlémont, territory of the city of Ronchamp in Haute-Saône, it was built on the site of an old chapel dedicated to the Virgin Mary and destroyed by  bombing in 1944.

    In the aftermath of the Second World War, the Société Immobilière de Notre-Dame-du-Haut, owner of the site, as well as the diocese of Besançon, on which the Chapel depends, joined forces to carry out the reconstruction project.

    The Sacred Arts Commission had the task of choosing the architect: Canon Lucien Ledeur, secretary of the Commission, and François Mathey, inspector of the Historic Monuments of t