Renzo at Ronchamp continues to elicit dismayed response

摘要

One cannot congratulate The Architectural Review enough for having published the text by William JK Curtis with its sharp and incisive criticisms of the disastrous interventions by Kenzo Piano and Michel Corajoud at Ronchamp (AE August). For millennia, this hill top supplied a key viewpoint on the way to the Alps, and the spirit of the place was magnified by Le Corbusier's masterpiece. With the dubious pretext of inserting nuns in a burrow, the Piano/Corajoud project has degraded Eonchamp to the level of a stop on guided tours.