Work

Notre-Dame du Haut (Ronchamp)

1955
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Le Corbusier's sculptural pilgrimage chapel that abandoned his machine aesthetic for an expressive, site-bound sacred architecture of light.

Ritual Memory Fantasy

Details

Type
Building
Location
Ronchamp, France

Classifications

Holder
Individual
Source of authority
Lived experienceRevelation cosmology
Subject
Human centred
Mode of transmission
Text drawing
Knowledge type
Relational embodied
Epistemic cluster
Western philosophical

Referenced by

Sources

  1. Danièle Pauly. Le Corbusier: The Chapel at Ronchamp. Birkhäuser / Fondation Le Corbusier, 1997.

Cite this entry

First published May 2026Last revised Jul 2026

CLAD. "Notre-Dame du Haut (Ronchamp)." Atlas of Architectural Thought. CLAD, 2026. https://www.cl-ad.com.au/research/atlas/work/notre-dame-du-haut-ronchamp/. Accessed July 17, 2026.