Daniella On Design
  • Blog
  • About
  • Design Education
  • Store

The Architecture Pilgrimage

6/13/2019

1 Comment

 
Picture
Architecture pilgrimage is one of my favorite forms of travel. It sharpens your taste, makes you understand and feel architecture in a way you cannot encounter through photographs, and it brings joy and peace. This time, while visiting Basel for the Art Basel week, we took a day trip to see one of the most intriguing masterpieces of the mid-century years. Just a short drive east of Basel, stands the Chapel of Notre Dame du Haut, built on the top of a hill in the sleepy French town of Ronchamp, in a place where a fourth-century church was initially built. It is the most surreal building of Le Corbusier.
 
The brain behind the famed building was no less fascinating and influential than the building itself. His name was Marie-Alain Couturier (1897-1954), a Dominican priest who was one of the editors of the highly influential journal L'Art sacre. He had a great interest in avant-garde art and in its potential to complement the modern church. Couturier was responsible for the first abstract stained glass windows in churches, and patronized work by Fernand Leger, Henri Matisse, and Jacques Lipchitz. In 1950 Father Couturier approached Le Corbusier, but he did not live to see Chapel's inauguration, five years later.

This building came to express the way in which abstract art and minimal modernist architecture have the power to stimulate religious feelings, peace, and joy. Le Corbusier designed it as a 'total work of art,' creating the building, its interiors, stained glass windows, mural on the entrance door, and a candelabra that was meant to evoke the Biblical blazed bush. When completed in 1955 it looked like an enormous white sculpture, unlike any other building. And today, the perfect destination for an architecture pilgrimage. 

Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
1 Comment
Batia Svirsky Melloul link
6/15/2019 02:44:23 am

I have just been there the first time in my life.This was a dream come true.You always feel and know what is really important in Architecture and Design!!!!
We will have to organize a course for Israely architects.
Chapeau!!!!

Reply



Leave a Reply.

    Picture

    ABOUT

    Picture
    Picture

    MY VIDEOS

    Video Series

    Collecting Design

    Conversations


    CONTACT

    daniella.ohad.nyc@gmail.com

    CATEGORIES


    NEWSLETTER


    ARCHIVES

    January 2021
    December 2020
    November 2020
    October 2020
    September 2020
    August 2020
    July 2020
    June 2020
    May 2020
    April 2020
    March 2020
    February 2020
    January 2020
    December 2019
    November 2019
    October 2019
    September 2019
    August 2019
    July 2019
    June 2019
    May 2019
    April 2019
    March 2019
    February 2019
    January 2019
    December 2018
    November 2018
    October 2018
    September 2018
    August 2018
    July 2018
    June 2018
    May 2018
    April 2018
    March 2018
    February 2018
    January 2018
    December 2017
    November 2017
    October 2017
    September 2017
    August 2017
    July 2017
    June 2017
    May 2017
    April 2017
    March 2017
    February 2017
    January 2017
    December 2016
    November 2016
    October 2016
    September 2016
    August 2016
    July 2016
    June 2016
    May 2016
    April 2016
    March 2016
    February 2016
    January 2016


    View Our Shop For Limited Edition Items
    SHOP

    RSS Feed

Picture
Home  |  About  |  Contact | Shop
Daniella On Design 2014-2019. All Rights Reserved.