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Guess the Architecture! for 12/27/2016

Posted December 27, 2016 2:00 PM by MaggieMc

Can you figure out what and where this building is from this sketch? Even better if you can give us the name of the architect!

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12/27/2016 4:46 PM

It is easy to find on Wikipedia:

The chapel of Notre Dame du Haut in Ronchamp, completed in 1954, is one of the finest examples of the architecture of Franco-Swiss architect Le Corbusier and one of the most important examples of twentieth-century religious architecture.

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12/27/2016 4:55 PM

The ''Chapelle Notre Dame du Haut'',

designed in 1950,

construction-completed in 1954,

by Charles-Edouard Jeanneret,

(self-promoted) as ''Le Corbusier'' (the ''form-giver'')

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12/27/2016 5:18 PM

Located in Ronchamp, France.

(no word as to whether or not the actual construction was done by ''Modulor''... )

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12/30/2016 12:00 PM

You guys were right!

This is Le Corbsier’s Notre Dame du Ronchamp, which he designed to replace the previous Catholic church that had been destroyed during World War II. This design differs so strongly from the idea of a “traditional” Catholic Church because “when Corbusier was commissioned… the church reformists wanted to clear their name of the decadence and ornamental past by embracing modern art and architecture.”

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