Abstract
Although an atheist, Le Corbusier responded enthusiastically to commissions from Catholic prelates belonging to the Sacred Art movement, for whom he created two edifices that were equally inseparable from the landscape in which they were built and viewed.
In Ronchamp, the Notre-Dame-du-Haut church is conceived as an extension of the hill it dominates, and in a distant relationship with the horizons, which Le Corbusier would describe as " acoustique visuelle ".
As for the convent at La Tourette, built on a slope, it is conceived in relation to the line of the Lyonnais mountains and designed from top to bottom, as a volume aligned with the distance, and which pilings connect to a ground that seems to be slipping away.
