For the majority of almost 70 colleagues assembled on the black and neon pink double decker, it is a name held in the kind of esteem a footballer regards Camp Nou or a mountaineer the Eiger’s north face.
As the location of the most recognisable work by that godfather of modernism Le Corbusier, it is a name emblazoned in the psyche of anybody who has experienced a traditional architectural training and will forever elicit an almost unique emotional response, namely extreme reverence.
Our visitto the breath-taking Chapelle Notre Dame du Haut came on day three of our recent study tour and was the piece de resistance if you will of a fantastic few days where we had already visited two other of Le Corbusier’s most important sites as well as the impressive regeneration of Lyon’s Confluence district.