Le Corbusier's Venice Hospital and the mat building revival / edited by Hashim Sarkis with Pablo Allard and Timothy Hyde. - 131 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. - CASE series . - CASE series. .

Published in association with Harvard University Graduate School of Design.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Series Foreword -- 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 Recognise and Read Mat-Building -- How to Construct an Architectural Genealogy -- Mat Urbanism: The Thick 2-D -- Contributors -- Index -- Illustration Credits.

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Hospital buildings--Design and construction
Architecture--Environmental aspects

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