Between 1953 and 1955, Le Corbusier's design was built here on the ruins of a chapel destroyed in the Second World War. This new building was to "offer four horizons and receive four horizons".However, before undertaking the work it was necessary to overcome several obstacles: Le Corbusier was still leading the failed project of the Basilica of Sainte-Baume, the money was not available and the church unwilling to appreciate Le Corbusier's architecture.Thanks to the tenacity of a few personalities, problems were solved and the models presented in 1950.The brutalism of the materials used to build the chapel of Notre-Dame-du-Haut is completely erased by the poetic forms that play beautifully with the light.
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