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Le Corbusier: Notre-Dame du Haut
Notre-Dame du Haut, Ronchamp, France; designed by Le Corbusier.
Celebrating Le Corbusier
Swiss visionary Le Corbusier helped to introduce modern architecture.
August 27, 2025, marks the 60th anniversary of the drowning death of Le Corbusier, one of the iconic architects of the 20th century. His travels as a young man helped him develop the principles he followed as an architect—and wrote extensively about—over the course of his life. Largely self-taught, he embraced functionalism, the doctrine that a building’s design should be determined by its use. “A house is a machine for living in,” he famously said. In such structures as his soaring wimplelike Notre-Dame-du-Haut (1950–55) in Ronchamp, France, he also pioneered in the use of rough-cast concrete.
