ARCHITECTURE : SJ04a Tracing one-architect chosen (Le Corbusier)

*was a Swiss architect, designer, urbanist, writer and painter, famous for being one of the pioneers of what now is called Modern architecture or the International style.

I HAVE CHOSEN -La chapelle de Ronchamp a cinquante ans
Some history of it:)
"Le Corbusier, a staunch atheist, at first had refused to accept the commission to rebuild the chapel, destroyed during World War II. But a visit to the site and the promise of total artistic freedom in designing the building ultimately convinced him, says Jean-François Mathay, whose father, François, was one of the project's promoters. It was controversial, since a petition against Le Corbusier's chapel went all the way to the Vatican. The work began four years later, with the architect hoping to calm the polemical battle.

"In a region with a fairly traditional mindset, Le Corbusier's chapel was received rather poorly. But the residents of Ronchamp today understand that they have a treasure high up on their hill," says Stéphane Potelle, a historian specializing in Le Corbusier, whom he calls "an agnostic architect who was steeped in spirituality." The Ronchamp chapel was the first of three religious buildings designed by the architect. It's "mind-blowing for art historians because it is not of a piece with the rest of Le Corbusier's career," says the historian. "We find here an interest in space, a control of light, the use of concrete characteristic of his work, but also an incredibly personal aspect, surely tied to the proximity of the site to the town of La Chaux de Fonds, in Switzerland, where Le Corbusier grew up with his mother, Marie, whom he venerated and whose first name is attached to the Marian focus of the chapel."

The building itself is a comparatively small structure enclosed by thick walls, with the upturned roof supported on columns embedded within the walls. In the interior, the spaces left between the wall and roof, as well as asymmetric light from the wall openings serve to further reinforce the sacral nature of the space and buttress the relationship of the building with its surroundings.

.......here are some tracing i did:)........