SACRED CONCRETE

Le Corbusier not only designed and built churches/ he was also intensely interested in religion and faith. His work deeply infl uenc ed church architecture in the twentieth century.This book examines Le Corbusiers relation- ship with religion in two introductory c hap-ters, presents his four designs for La Sainte-Baume, the Chapel of Notre Dame du Haut de Ronchamp, the Cloister of La Tourette, and the Church of St. Pierre, and, in the fi nal chapter, examines his infl uence on church architecture in Europe in the twentieth cen-tury. E...[Read more]