Case: Le Corbusier's Venice Hospital and the Mat Building Revival

by Timothy Hyde (Editor), Hashim Sarkis (Editor), Pablo Allard (Editor)

Le Corbusier Venice Hospital Edited by Hashim Sarkis 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.

132 pages, Paperback

First published March 31, 2002

About the author

Timothy Hyde is associate professor in the history and theory of architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is the author of Constitutional Modernism: Architecture and Civil Society in Cuba, 1933–1959. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.