The Notre Dame du Haut in Ronchamp, France, is a pilgrimage chapel, designed by
Le Corbusier in 1954.
It stands, all in concrete, above the town on the top of a wooded hill, white and reflective, visible from miles away, with its aerodynamic tower, its “natural” shapes and wave-curved roof cutting into the sky beyond.
Above the plain altar, the east wall is punctuated by several pinhole-windows and by a single substantial window with the Madonna and Child in silhouette. 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.
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