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.
General
Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate?
Let us know about it.
Does this product have an incorrect or missing image?
Send us a new image.
Is this product missing categories?
Add more categories.
Review This Product
No reviews yet - be the first to create one!
Welcome to Loot.co.za!
Sign in / Register |Wishlists & Gift Vouchers |Help | Advanced search
