Author: LEAGUE OF NATIONS
Title: Concours d'architecture pour l'édification d'un palais de la Societé des Nations, a Geneve (number 1802 of 2900 in French edition)
Description: Geneva 1926 Card folder with 12 documents: 1. Program et règlement du Concours d'Architecture (32pp); 2. Annexe I: Plan General de la Ville de Genève; 3. Annexe II: Plan de situation; 5. Annexe III: Coupes Géologiques et Plan des Sondages; 4. Annexe II bis: Supplément au Plan de Situation; 6. Annexe IV: 10 Photographies: Détails du Terran, vue d'ensemble et photographies aériennes; 7. Annexe V: Tableau résumé de tous les locaux demandés; 8. Annexe VI: Exemple de disposition des pupitres; 9. Annexe VII: Devis résumé et série de prix; 10. Annexe VIII: Tarif d'honoraires pour travaux d'architecture; 11. Annexe IX: Note contenant un expose sur l'organisation de la Société des Nations; 12. Annexe X: Tableau des dates réglant l'envoi: (a) des programmes de concours et (b) des projets présentés par les concurrents. Also includes covering letter from Secretary of the Building Committee to Mssrs W and TR Milburn, architects, of Sunderland. Duplicate copies of Annexe II bis and Annexe IV also included. 36x26, (maps are various sizes), card folder. Substantial section of spine of folder neatly cut away, some rubbing and loss to rest of spine; some discolouring and edge marking to most documents, but all intact and complete, in generally good to very good condition. The competition to design a headquarters for the League of Nations proved very popular, and the jury, chaired by Victor Horta, was torn between classical and modern aesthetics and unable to decide on a single winner from the nearly 400 entries. Eventually five architects on the final shortlist - Carlo Broggi of Italy, Julien Flegenheimer of Switzerland, Camille Lefèvre and Henri-Paul Nénot of France, and Joseph Vago of Hungary - were asked to work together on a final design. The jury's rejection of the modernist entries by Corbusier, Neutra, Meyer et al led directly to the founding of CIAM in 1928.

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