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Le Corbusier : Venice Hospital (Case Series)by Hashim Sarkis Paperback - 120 pages (October 2001) Prestel USA ISBN: 3791325388 Check price and buy it at: amazon.com , amazon.co.uk Book Description 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. From the Publisher 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 simultaneously 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...
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