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Le Corbusier Ronchamp Chapel ” Sacred Inspiration” 2

Louis Kahn Architect

First Unitarian Church and School

Rochester NY 1959-1969

Louis Kahn Designed an built the First Unitarian Church and School in Rochester NY from 1959 to 1969

Kahn’s earliest known sketches show that he was working with a centralized concept.

His Desire was to create a single unified structure appropriate to Unitarianism….

Another influence of past solutions to church planning was Rudolf Wittkower’s Architectural Principles in the age of Humanism which illustrated centrally planned Renaissance churches.

Did Ronchamp chapel was another source of inspiration for Louis Kahn?

Note the concrete heavy flouting roof and the distribution of the indirect day light coming from hidden windows.

Kahn First Unitarian Church eliinbar Sketches 2010

Le Corbusier Ronchamp Chapel eliinbar Sketches 2010

Rafael Moneo Lady of the Angels Cathedral eliinbar Sketches 2010

Le Corbusier Ronchamp Chapel “Sacred Inspiraion”

Posted in public buildings with tags Conscious Inspiration, eliinbar Sketches 2010, Le Corbusier, Our lady of the Angels Cathedral, Rafael Moneo, Ronchamp Chapel, Sacred Inspiration on November 28, 2010 by eliinbar

Here is another example of “conscious inspiration”….

Relevant citations of Corbusier:

Space and light and order. Those are the things that men need just as much as they need bread or a place to sleep.

Our eyes are made to see forms in light; light and shade reveal these forms; cubes, cones, spheres, cylinders or pyramids are the great primary forms which light reveals to advantage.

Architecture is the masterly, correct and magnificent play of masses brought together in light.

Le Corbusier Architect

Ronchamp Chapel

Notre Dame Du Haut France 1950-54

Rafael Moneo Architect

Our Lady of the Angels Cathedral

Los Angeles California USA 1996-2002

Moneo Is inspired by Le Corbusiers’ Ron champ Chapel And design a masterpiece cathedral in los Angeles . ” It was the human hand which affirmed the space as sacred, a physical act in a spiritual space”….

Moneo Is inspired by Le Corbusiers’ Ron champ Chapel…. and that is “Conscious Inspiration”….