Le Corbusier
After Le Corbusier' s death, Hans Girsberger, the publisher, and Willy Boe siger, chief editor of the Oeuvre complete, published the eighth and last volume of his works. Boesiger (1904 1990), an architect in Zurich, owner of the restaurant and movie complex Nord Siid on the Limmat river, a flaneur, and honorary doctor of the Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule (ETH), reported in the Dernieres oeuvres primarily on the four projects that occupied the atelier after the master s death: Firminy-Vert; Chandigarh; the new hos pital for Venice; and the exhibition pavilion of the gallerist Heidi Weber in Zurich. Three of these projects were finished one way or another. The fourth, the hospital in the lagoon in the Cannaregio quarter of Venice, remained only a project. That design from LC s last months will occupy us, as it has to do, once again very clearly, with one of the main themes in my book: the boyhood period and the boyhood dreams of the future architect. To these four projects Bo...