Notre-Dame du Haut is a Roman Catholic chapel in Ronchamp, France, built in 1955 and considered one of the finest examples of the work of the French-Swiss architect Le Corbusier. Blessed in 1955 and consecrated in 2005, it remains a working religious building under the guardianship of the private foundation Association de l'Oeuvre de Notre-Dame du Haut, drawing 80,000 visitors a year, and in 2016 it was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List together with sixteen other works by Le Corbusier for its importance to the development of modernist architecture.
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Designed By
Designed by Le Corbusier.
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Entity-backed identity for the building-type enum value this building already carries, resolved to an architecture concept by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The building-type fact itself stays on the building unchanged.
Held Differently
Why this is disputed. Also described by some as the first Post-Modern building rather than Expressionist; the source names both characterizations without resolving between them.
Source Notre-Dame du Haut (Wikipedia)
In Style
A late Le Corbusier modernist work, though its expressive curved form is also widely discussed outside strict modernist canon.
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Source Notre-Dame du Haut (Wikipedia)
In the Other Atlases
- Also in Geography Atlas: France, located there.
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1. Notre-Dame du Haut (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia FoundationLead paragraph, on what the building is
is a Roman Catholic chapel in Ronchamp, France.
Lead paragraph, on the chapel location
is a Roman Catholic chapel in Ronchamp, France.
Lead paragraph, on the completion year
Built in 1955, it is one of the finest examples of the architecture of French-Swiss architect Le Corbusier.
- Wikipedia "Notre-Dame du Haut" intro (read live, w-fk-arch-rel2-0927c, R-K)
Entity description and the lead of the Wikipedia article
Notre-Dame du Haut is a Roman Catholic chapel in Ronchamp, France, built in 1955 and considered one of the finest examples of the work of the French-Swiss architect Le Corbusier. Blessed in 1955 and consecrated in 2005, it remains a working religious building under the guardianship of the private foundation Association de l'Oeuvre de Notre-Dame du Haut, drawing 80,000 visitors a year, and in 2016 it was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List together with sixteen other works by Le Corbusier for its importance to the development of modernist architecture.
In Style: Expressionist Architecture, History section, on competing style characterizations
Some have described Ronchamp as the first Post-Modern building, and others as the first building of the movement Expressionist architecture after World War II.
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