Sobre Ronchamp

The Notre-Dame du Haut chapel in Ronchamp, in the French Franche-Comte, is one of the most unique and fascinating buildings of religious architecture of the 20th century. Inaugurated in 1955, Le Corbusier's unusual project involved the reinvention of sacred space, in which light plays an important symbolic role. In this essay, Rafael Moneo sets his expert and penetrating gaze on that extraordinary place that has been part of his architectural imagination for so long, and helps us to reveal the enigmas that arise for the visitor who crosses its threshold, while places it not only in the whole of Le Corbusier's work, but in contemporary spiritual architecture.