Visite guidée La synthèse des arts à la Chapelle Le Corbusier, Ronchamp

This guided tour offers an insight into the world of Le Corbusier through his life, his ideas and his unique relationship with the arts. As well as being an architect, Le Corbusier was a multi-faceted creator, deeply influenced by painting, sculpture, music and poetry. In Ronchamp, with the Notre-Dame du Haut chapel, he created an exceptional work that embodies his desire to bring the arts together in a single project. The tour begins with a presentation of Le Corbusier. Born in Switzerland in 1887, Le Corbusier began his career as an engraver and draughtsman, but very early on he developed an artistic eye nourished by travel, encounters and the close observation of forms. A painter throughout his life, he practised drawing on a daily basis, seeing these disciplines as inseparable from his work as an architect. Understanding this dimension is essential to understanding his work. The guides go back over Le Corbusier's major theories, in particular his search for harmonious proportions, his relationship with light and his interest in rhythm, notions that can be found in both his paintings and his buildings. Music, which he readily associated with architecture, influenced his way of thinking about space as a composition, made up of variations, silences and tensions. At the heart of the visit, the Notre-Dame du Haut chapel becomes the ideal observation ground for this synthesis of the arts. The visit also provides an opportunity to explore the sculptural dimension of the chapel. Le Corbusier conceived the building as a form to be explored and observed from the outside as well as the inside. The relationship with the landscape, the ridge lines and the horizon play an integral part in the composition of the work. At Ronchamp, the architecture is in dialogue with nature, extending the architect's artistic thinking. Throughout the tour, links are established between Le Corbusier's pictorial works and the architectural choices made for the chapel. Shapes, colours, symbols and rhythms respond to each other, illustrating the idea of a total work, where the arts are never compartmentalised. Accessible to all, this guided tour invites you to discover Le Corbusier from a different angle. It's aimed at both architecture enthusiasts and those curious to better understand how painting, sculpture, music and architecture come together in a project as emblematic as the Notre-Dame du Haut chapel.