Le Corbusier's Venice Hospital Project

Le Corbusier's Venice Hospital Project
Author :
Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 377
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781317107101
ISBN-13 : 1317107101
Rating : 4/5 (01 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Le Corbusier's Venice Hospital Project by : Mahnaz Shah

Download or read book Le Corbusier's Venice Hospital Project written by Mahnaz Shah and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While Le Corbusier's urban projects are generally considered confrontational in their relationship to the traditional urban fabric, his proposal for the Venice hospital project remained an exercise in preserving the medieval fabric of the city of Venice through a systemic replication of its urban tissue. This book offers a detailed study of Le Corbusier's Venice hospital project as a plausible built entity. In addition, it analyses it in the light of its supposed affinity with the medieval urban configuration of the city of Venice. No formal attempt to date has been made to critically analyse the hospital project's design considerations in comparison to the medieval urban configuration of the city of Venice. Using a range of methodologies including those from architectural theory and history, using archival resources, on-site analysis, and interviews with important resource persons, this book is an interpretation of the conceptual basis for Le Corbusier understanding of the structural formulation of the city of Venice as mentioned in The Radiant City (1935). In doing so, it deciphers the diagrammatic analysis of the city structure found in this work into a set of coherent design modules that were applied in the hospital project and that could become a point of further investigation. Architects and other architecturally interested laypeople with an interest in Venice will find the book a valuable addition to their knowledge. For architectural historians the book makes an important link between modernism and the historically grown Venice.


Le Corbusier's Venice Hospital Project Related Books

Le Corbusier's Venice Hospital Project
Language: en
Pages: 377
Authors: Mahnaz Shah
Categories: Architecture
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-05-15 - Publisher: Routledge

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

While Le Corbusier's urban projects are generally considered confrontational in their relationship to the traditional urban fabric, his proposal for the Venice
The Venice Variations
Language: en
Pages: 335
Authors: Sophia Psarra
Categories: Architecture
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-04-30 - Publisher: UCL Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

From the myth of Arcadia through to the twenty-first century, ideas about sustainability – how we imagine better urban environments – remain persistently re
Design Thinking
Language: en
Pages: 252
Authors: Peter G. Rowe
Categories: Architecture
Type: BOOK - Published: 1991-02-14 - Publisher: MIT Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

In Design Thinking Peter Rowe provides a systematic account of the process of designing in architecture and urban planning. He examines multiple and often dissi
The Venice Hospital Project of Le Corbusier
Language: en
Pages: 64
Authors: Guillermo Jullian de la Fuente
Categories: Health facilities
Type: BOOK - Published: 1968 - Publisher:

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The Modulor
Language: en
Pages: 248
Authors: Le Corbusier
Categories: Architecture
Type: BOOK - Published: 2000 - Publisher:

DOWNLOAD EBOOK