ABSTRACT
This chapter helps the reader to understand the structural formulation of the hospital project in the light of its supposed affinity with the medieval urban configuration of the city of Venice. It analyses Le Corbusier's urban finesse through the step by step construction of the design decisions that defined the programme of the project. The urban significance of the hospital project can be gauged by the fact that it was to be installed 'on the periphery of the lagoon' with the prospect of becoming an 'essential institute and an important addition to the city'. In his correspondence with Dr Hindermeyer on contemporary hospital designs dated 19 May 1964, Le Corbusier specifically mentioned that he had to provide 'the Italians of Venice with some ideas on general urbanization'. The aggregation of the hospital programme is entirely based on the matrix of the above series of internal mechanisms.
