Maria A. Crippa Livres

Le Corbusiers Chapel of Notre Dame du Haut in Ronchamp, eastern France, is one of the most unique and surprising religious buildings of the twentieth century. As well as putting the chapel into its historical context and exploring the controversies and arguments that have surrounded it, the book features photographs of the Chapel.

Window frames curve like flowering branches and ceramic tiling shimmers like reptilian skin in the fervent architectural imagination of Antoni Gaudi. This introduction to the modernist Catalan architect explores how his outstanding attention to natural detail and unique vision transformed Barcelona's cityscape with extraordinary buildings that continue to amaze, even a century after their construction.