The Chapel At Ronchamp

Author : Maria Antoinetta Crippa,Caussé Françoise
Publisher : Royal Academy Books
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2015-09-15
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1907533923

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Le Corbusier by Maria Antoinetta Crippa,Caussé Françoise Pdf

"Le Corbusier's Chapel of Notre Dame du Haut at Ronchamp in eastern France is one of the twentieth century's boldest and most surprising religious buildings. Replacing a church that had been destroyed during the Second World War - a structure that was itself built on the site of a fourth-century Christian chapel - Le Corbusier transformed an ancient pilgrimage site into a dramatic and unforgettable work of modern art ... [The authors] explore the unique set of circumstances that resulted in the creation of an extraordinary space of worship on a remote hill in the French countryside by one of the twentieth-century's most controversial exponents of urbanism. As well as putting the chapel ... into its historical context and exploring the vigorous debates that have surrounded it, the book also features stunning new photographs that capture the genius of Le Corbusier's design"--Publisher's description.

Author : Danièle Pauly
Publisher : Birkhäuser
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2015-04-24
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9783035603996

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Le Corbusier. The Chapel at Ronchamp by Danièle Pauly Pdf

The pilgrimage church Notre-Dame-du-Haut in Ronchamp (1950–54), an icon of modern architecture, represents one of the central buildings of Le Corbusier’s late period. Located on a high plateau in the Vosges above Belfort, this building is an unsurpassed work of artwhich alsofits uniquely into its physical surroundings. The shell-shaped roof, the rounded walls, the towers of stone masonry, and the facade with its rhythmic openings of colored glass are the essential elements of this sculptural construction. The scale and proportions of the chapel at Ronchamp are designed on the basis of the Modulor that Le Corbusier developed, which accounts for its distinctive spatial effect. Like all the guides in this series, this book is indispensable both for a specialist audience and for tourists interested in architecture and modern art.

Author : Danièle Pauly
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1997-10-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 3764357592

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Le Corbusier: the Chapel at Ronchamp by Danièle Pauly Pdf

The pilgrimage church Notre-Dame-du-Haut in Ronchamp (1950–54), an icon of modern architecture, represents one of the central buildings of Le Corbusier’s late period. Like all the guides in this series, this book is indispensable both for a specialist audience and for tourists interested in architecture and modern art.

Author : Le Corbusier
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 135 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : Chapels
ISBN : LCCN:gb58002386

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The Chapel at Ronchamp by Le Corbusier Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Springer Science & Business
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1568981848

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The Chapel at Ronchamp by Anonim Pdf

The Building Blocks series presents icons of modern architecture as interpreted by Ezra Stoller, whose photography has defined the way postwar architecture has been viewed by architects, historians, and the public at large. Taken just after the completion of each project, these photographs provide a unique historical record of the buildings in use, documenting people, fashions, and furnishings of the period.

Author : Jean-Louis Cohen
Publisher : Taschen
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Architects
ISBN : 3822835358

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Le Corbusier, 1887-1965 by Jean-Louis Cohen Pdf

Le Corbusier came of age at the time when cars and planes were becoming a common means of transportation, thus he was one of the first professional architects to ply his trade on several continents at once. This book brings together his finest work.

Author : Flora Samuel,Inge Linder-gaillard
Publisher : Birkhauser
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2024-10-21
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 3035628920

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Sacred Concrete, by Flora Samuel,Inge Linder-gaillard Pdf

Corbusier entwarf und baute nicht nur Kirchen, er setzte sich auch intensiv mit Religion und Glauben auseinander und prägte durch sein Schaffen maßgeblich die Kirchenarchitektur des 20. Jahrhunderts. Das Buch erläutert Le Corbusiers Verhältnis zur Religion, stellt seine Entwürfe zu La Sainte-Baume, der Kapelle von Notre Dame du Haut de Ronchamp, dem Kloster La Tourette und der Kirche St. Pierre vor und untersucht seinen Einfluss auf die weitere Kirchenarchitektur des 20. Jahrhunderts in Europa. Dazu gehören die Jubilee Church von Richard Meier, die Ignatius Kapelle von Steven Holl, die Santa Maria Kirche von Álvaro Siza, Tadao Andos "Meditation Space" und die Kapelle der Versöhnung von Reitermann & Sassenroth. Für die zweite Auflage wurden Einleitung, Schlusskapitel und Bibliografie überarbeitet und ergänzt.

Author : Andre Wogenscky
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 101 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2006-02-10
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780262232449

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Le Corbusier's Hands by Andre Wogenscky Pdf

Le Corbusier's assistant and fellow architect remembers his mentor in a series of concise and poetic reflections. Le Corbusier's Hands offers a poetic and personal portrait of Le Corbusier—a nuanced portrayal that is in contrast to the popular image of Le Corbusier the aloof modernist. The author knew Le Corbusier intimately for thirty years, first as his draftsman and main assistant, later as his colleague and personal friend. In this book, written in the mid-1980s, Wogenscky remembers his mentor in a series of revealing personal statements and evocative reflections unlike anything that exists in the vast literature on Le Corbusier. Wogenscky draws a portrait in swift, deft strokes—50 short chapters, one leading to the next, one memory of Le Corbusier opening into another. Appearing and reappearing like a leitmotif are Le Corbusier's hands—touching, taking, drawing, offering, closing, opening, grasping, releasing: "It was his hands that revealed him.... They spoke all his feelings, all the vibrations of his inner life that his face tried to conceal." Wogenscky writes about Le Corbusier's work, including the famous design of the chapel at Ronchamp, his ideas for high-density Unités d'Habitation linked to the center of a "Radiant City," and his "Modulor" system for defining proportions—which Wogenscky compares to a piano tuner's finding the exact relation between sounds. He remembers the day Picasso spent with Le Corbusier at the Marseilles building site—"All day long they outdid one another in a show of modesty," he observes in amazement. He adds, speaking for himself and the others present, "We were inside a double energy field." And Wogenscky writes about Le Corbusier more personally. "I have spent years trying to understand what went on in his mind and in his hand," he tells us. With Le Corbusier's Hands, Wogenscky gives us a unique record of an enigmatic genius.

Author : Le Corbusier
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0892368993

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Toward an Architecture by Le Corbusier Pdf

Published in 1923, Toward an Architecture had an immediate impact on architects throughout Europe and remains a foundational text for students and professionals. Le Corbusier urges readers to cease thinking of architecture as a matter of historical styles and instead open their eyes to the modern world. Simultaneously a historian, critic, and prophet, he provocatively juxtaposes views of classical Greece and Renaissance Rome with images of airplanes, cars, and ocean liners. Le Corbusier's slogans--such as "the house is a machine for living in"--and philosophy changed how his contemporaries saw the relationship between architecture, technology, and history. This edition includes a new translation of the original text, a scholarly introduction, and background notes that illuminate the text and illustrations.

Author : Fondation Le Corbusier
Publisher : Birkhäuser
Page : 579 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2015-04-24
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9783035604092

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The Modulor and Modulor 2 by Fondation Le Corbusier Pdf

In the years 1942 to 1948, Le Corbusier developed a system of measurements which became known as "Modulor". Based on the Golden Section and Fibonacci numbers and also using the physical dimensions of the average human, Modulor is a sequence of measurements which Le Corbusier used to achieve harmony in his architectural compositions. Le Modulor was published in 1950 and after meeting with success, Le Corbusier went on to publish Modulor 2 in 1955. In many of Le Corbusier s most notable buildings, including the Chapel at Ronchamp and the Unité d habitation, evidence of his Modulor system can be seen. These two volumes form an important and integral part of Le Corbusier’s theoretical writings.

Author : Henry Plummer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UCSD:31822038744306

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Cosmos of Light by Henry Plummer Pdf

One of the great visionaries and pioneers of modern architecture, Le Corbusier was a master of light, declaring it both a fundamental basis of architecture and the key to personal well-being. In this portfolio of 160 photographs taken over 40 years, Henry Plummer captures Le Corbusier's inspired use of natural light in three of his greatest achievements: the small pilgrimage chapel at Ronchamp, the Dominican monastery of Sainte Marie de La Tourette, and the parish church of Saint-Pierre in Firminy-Vert, all in France. In these modest religious works Le Corbusier deploys light to create enchanted, emotionally charged spaces wedded to the cosmic rhythm of sunlight and season. Cosmos of Light reveals how the artist reimagined sacred space and charted new ways that buildings can both reveal and inhabit the universe around them.

Author : Robin Evans
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2000-08-25
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0262550385

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The Projective Cast by Robin Evans Pdf

Robin Evans recasts the idea of the relationship between geometry and architecture, drawing on mathematics, engineering, art history, and aesthetics to uncover processes in the imagining and realizing of architectural form. Anyone reviewing the history of architectural theory, Robin Evans observes, would have to conclude that architects do not produce geometry, but rather consume it. In this long-awaited book, completed shortly before its author's death, Evans recasts the idea of the relationship between geometry and architecture, drawing on mathematics, engineering, art history, and aesthetics to uncover processes in the imagining and realizing of architectural form. He shows that geometry does not always play a stolid and dormant role but, in fact, may be an active agent in the links between thinking and imagination, imagination and drawing, drawing and building. He suggests a theory of architecture that is based on the many transactions between architecture and geometry as evidenced in individual buildings, largely in Europe, from the fifteenth to the twentieth century. From the Henry VII chapel at Westminster Abbey to Le Corbusier's Ronchamp, from Raphael's S. Eligio and the work of Piero della Francesca and Philibert Delorme to Guarino Guarini and the painters of cubism, Evans explores the geometries involved, asking whether they are in fact the stable underpinnings of the creative, intuitive, or rhetorical aspects of architecture. In particular he concentrates on the history of architectural projection, the geometry of vision that has become an internalized and pervasive pictorial method of construction and that, until now, has played only a small part in the development of architectural theory. Evans describes the ambivalent role that pictures play in architecture and urges resistance to the idea that pictures provide all that architects need, suggesting that there is much more within the scope of the architect's vision of a project than what can be drawn. He defines the different fields of projective transmission that concern architecture, and investigates the ambiguities of projection and the interaction of imagination with projection and its metaphors.

Author : Steven Holl
Publisher : Princeton Architectural Press
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1999-07
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781568981802

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The Chapel of St. Ignatius by Steven Holl Pdf

Reveals Holl's working method from watercolor sketches to working drawings to construction shots.

Author : Robert Coombs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Architecture
ISBN : STANFORD:36105110284374

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Mystical Themes in Le Corbusier's Architecture in the Chapel Notre Dame Du Haut at Ronchamp by Robert Coombs Pdf

This is a study of Le Corbusier's most controversial work after World War II: Notre Dame du Haut at Ronchamp. It reveals his Cubist interweaving of metaphysical themes and the various mystical strands of the Ronchamp riddle.

Author : Fondation Le Corbusier
Publisher : Birkhäuser
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2020-03-09
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9783035620696

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A Little House by Fondation Le Corbusier Pdf

Villa le Lac, which was designated a World Heritage in 2016, was designed and built by Le Corbusier as Geneva lakeside home for his parents in 1925. Because of its spare arrangement of spaces, he referred to it as a “dwelling machine.” Even today it remains the modern prototype of the “small house” that fulfills all of the functions of a residence with a minimum of floor area and seamless transitions between spaces. For the first time, this book is appearing in three separate language editions, following the original edition in which Le Corbusier documented the history of the building: with photographs, sketches and a poetic text. Access to the original photographs allowed the quality of the illustrations in this edition to be improved significantly.