Le Corbusier's Venice Hospital

Hashim Sarkis

132 pages, parution le 14/09/2005

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Résumé

This volume explores an unbuilt yet iconic project by Le Corbuiser and its visual representation. The Venice Hospital is the uncontested epitome of the “mat”or carpet, building type, a low sprawling structure developed in the late fifties and sixties that is making a strong comeback in contemporary architecture.

Planned in 1965 for the arsenal area at the edge of the city, the hospital was designed to extend the city 's roads and canal networks, while simultanously turning in on itself to create flexible, quasi-urban interior environments in the form of endlessly repeating courtyards. Upon Le Corbusier's death in 1965, Guillermo Jullian de la Fuente was commissioned to complete the building. However, due to changes in city government, the project was eventually abandoned. This book reinvestigates this canonic example of Le Corbusier's late work and includes an account of de la Fuente's involvement in the project, previously unpublished drawings from his archive, and a reprint of Alison Smithson' s seminal essay on “mat” buildings.

Contents

Preface
Introduction
Bridge over Venice
Rapport Technique
The Emergence of Mat or Field Buildings
Mat Buildings and the Environment
The Paradoxical Promise of Flexibility
How to Recognize and Read Mat-Buildings
How to Construct an Architectural Genealogy
Mat Urbanism : The Thick 2-D
Contributors
Index
Illustration Credits

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	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Prestel
Auteur(s)	Hashim Sarkis
Parution	14/09/2005
Nb. de pages	132
Format	19,5 x 24
Couverture	Broché
Poids	484g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9783791325385