Le Corbusier's Venice Hospital Project. An Investigation into its Structural Formulation

In 1964, Le Corbusier was commissioned to design a hospital in the San Giobbe neighbourhood of Venice. While he died the following year and so his design was not built, the two phases of the book that he completed on paper not only show one last late work and the ideas Le Corbusier had about creating spaces of the acutely ill (when he himself was dying), but also they offer surprising insights into his views on urban design and planning.
This book offers a detailed study of the Venice hospital project as a plausible built entity, but in addition, it analyses it in the light of its supposed affinity with the medieval urban configuration of the city of Venice. It shows that, 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.
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 (1967). 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