Le Corbusier and Jose Oubrerie are unusual collaborators on the Eglise Saint-Pierre de Firminy, whose design took 43 years to complete in the Loire Valley.
Blunt, thickset, elemental––these are your first impressions, having turned through the close neighborhood streets of Firminy and come upon the Eglise Saint-Pierre Firminy-Vert in the widening expanse of its suburban setting. As you approach, you find you have been further deceived: the pyramidal mass does not rest staunchly on the ground like the mountains in the background, but alights on a fragile base of glass and a thin concrete wall.
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