The only items I now recall are: 1) “Mull over the fact that ‘Robinson’ is not a particularly Swiss-sounding name for a family” and 2) “Visit the Ronchamp Chapel.” I dispatched with ...

The Chapel of Notre-Dame du Haut (Our Lady of the Height) overlooks the small town of Ronchamp from the hill of Bourlémont. It was built by one of the twentieth century’s most famous architects ...

At the end of World War II, the villagers of Ronchamp (pop. 1,900), in France’s Vosges foothills, faced an old. familiar problem: how to rebuild the chapel of Notre-Dame-du-Haut atop a nearby ...

With a plan afoot for Renzo Piano to add buildings to the site of Le Corbusier’s famed Chapel of Notre Dame du Haut in Ronchamp, France, a perfect storm of good intentions in conflict is brewing.

I first catch a glimpse of the chapel miles away from Ronchamp. It stands out, bright-white and alone against the dark forests of the Haute Saône on the eastern fringes of France. The land is ...

It was precisely these concepts that Le Corbusier pursued with the design and construction of the Notre Dame du Haut Chapel in Ronchamp, France. With this project, Le Corbusier moved away from the ...

Ronchamp sits among a wooded terrain secluded from the rest of the commune; the chapel is placed atop a hill on the site setting itself on a metaphorical pedestal giving Ronchamp added importance.