Le Corbusier Works in France

Notre Dame du Haut Chapel and Quartiers Modernes Frugès are two of the 17 projects designed by the architect Le Corbusier, classified as UNESCO WHS in 2016.

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In the city of Ronchamp, southeast of Paris, is located one of the most significant works of Le Corbusier's career, the Chapel Notre-Dame du Haut (Our Lady of the Heights). Built in 1955, this chapel was the architect's first project for a religious building. 

The site of Ronchamp had long been a place of pilgrimage that was deeply rooted in Catholic tradition, however its church was destroyed during German bombing in the autumn of 1944 during World War II. In 1950, Le Corbusier was commissioned to design a church to replace the one destroyed during the War. 

The fine, curvy architecture of the chapel is surprising from what one saw of Le Corbusier, a rationalist architect who believed only in the right angle. The chapel is full of architectural contradictions, at the same time square and round, elongated and restrained, low and high. Due to this contradiction to Corbusier's architecture of straight lines and the fact that he was an atheist, the chapel of Ronchamp was one of the works that caused the most controversy and difficulty of assimilation by critics, both by architects and by the public.

 

Ville de Pessac - Direction de la Communication 

Quartiers Modernes Frugès, a housing development located in Pessac, contained some 70 housing units, built as experimental housing for workers.

Le Corbusier took into account prevailing social and economic factors, and was determined to build the plan to provide people with low-cost, predetermined, homogeneous cubist structures.

The project originated in 1920 with 10 houses built at Lege, near Pessac, for the father of Henry Fruges. Following this initial phase, the project was extended to 200 houses. Only a quarter of this number were built by 1926. L-C painted panels of brown, blue, yellow and jade green in response to the clients request for 'decoration'.

The layout consists of a terrace of about 8 three storey houses with roof gardens. Behind them is a terrace of houses connected to each other with a concrete arch which provides a sheltered garden. In the middle of the development are the interlocking houses. - in: wikipedia