Main entry:

Žaknić, Ivan.

Title & Author:

Le Corbusier - Pavillon Suisse : the biography of a building = Biographie d'un batiment / Ivan Zaknic ; [translation into French: Luc Shankland].

Publication:

Basel : Birkhäuser, 2004.

Description:

416 pages : illustrations (some color), plans ; 31 cm

Notes:
Foreword / Benedict von Tscharner -- I. The context : Cite Internationale Universitaire de Paris (CIUP) -- II. Acquiring the funds, the site, and the commission -- III. History of the design -- IV. Groundbreaking, construction, confrontation -- V. Inauguration and chronic financial trauma -- VI. The war years 1939-1945 : occupation and degradation -- VII. Post-war reparations : the new mural, the curtain wall, and the Brise-soleil -- VIII. Le Corbusier's increasing recognition and diminishing involvement -- IX. The posthumous life of the Swiss Pavilion -- X. Crisis in Utopia.
Text in English and French.

Summary:

"This monograph by Ivan Zaknic is the result of a decade of archival research on Pavillon Suisse and a careful reconstruction of all its design phases. It is the first book-length study of this truly seminal building."--Jacket.

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

3764300094 (hd. bd.)
9783764300098 (hd. bd.)

Subject:

Le Corbusier, 1887-1965 Criticism and interpretation.
Le Corbusier, 1887-1965 Critique et interprétation.
Le Corbusier, 1887-1965
Pavillon suisse (Paris, France)
Fondation suisse (Paris, France)
Woningen.
Studenten.
Pavillon Suisse.
Dormitories France.
Architecture.
Schweizer Pavillon
Paris Schweizer Pavillon.

Form/genre:

Bildband.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Added entries:

Biographie d'un batiment

Holdings:

Location: Library main 233918
Call No.: NA44.L433.25 P3 2004
Status: Available