Notre Dame du Haut, Ronchamp from the collection of Anderson Gallery - BSU

Notre Dame du Haut, Ronchamp by Terri Priest

Notre Dame du Haut, Ronchamp, 1985

Chalk on paper

22 x 30 in (55.88 x 76.2 cm)

Signature: Signed and Dated in pencil at lower right

Inv: x08112026.2

Location: Art Center

Charles-Édouard Jeanneret—far better known by his pseudonym, Le Corbusier—was the leading figure in Modernist architecture. Starting in the early 1920s, with the Parisian avant-garde as his springboard, the Swiss-born architect (1887-1965) used writings, lectures, radical urbanist ideas, and exquisite geometric residences to persuade the world that it should use concrete, steel and glass to construct flat-roofed buildings, with open plans and horizontal bands of windows.

Notre-Dame du Haut (Our Lady of the Heights) at Ronchamp in eastern France is one of the most extraordinary religious buildings of the twentieth century — a pilgrimage chapel whose sculptural concrete forms and mystical interior light represent Le Corbusier's (1887–1965) most poetic architectural expression.

Completed in 1955 on the Bourlémont hilltop near Belfort, the chapel replaced a 4th-century shrine destroyed during World War II. Le Corbusier's design shocked both critics and admirers: it departed completely from his rationalist early work and the machine aesthetic of his "Five Points of Architecture," giving instead a deeply emotional, site-specific response to a place of pilgrimage with centuries of spiritual history.

Terri Priest (1928–2014), who signed her work as T. Priest, was known for abstract paintings, serigraphs, and lithographs. She studied and taught in Massachusetts and focused on geometric and optical abstract compositions.

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