![]() ![]() ![]() The sensational impact … on the visitor is significantly not sustained for any length of time and when the emotions subside there is little to appeal to the intellect … This entirely visual appeal … may partly account for its easy acceptance by the local population … The desire to deride the schematic basis of modern architecture and the ability to turn a design upside down and make it architecture are symptomatic of a state when the vocabulary is not being extended, and a parallel can be drawn with the Mannerist period of the Renaissance.’ JAMES STIRLING: ‘Ronchamp: Le Corbusier’s Chapel and the Crisis of Rationalism’, 1956. ‘… it is important to consider whether this building should influence the course of modern architecture. Originally published in AR December 1984, this piece was republished online in March 2011 ![]() William Curtis offers the final analysis of Stirling’s Neue Staatsgalerie ![]()
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