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Article: L'affaire Suisse.(Book Review)
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- The Architectural Review
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- May 1, 2005
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LE CORBUSIER: PAVILLON SUISSE--THE BIOGRAPHY OF A BUILDING
By Ivan Zaknic. Basel: Birkhauser. 2004. [euro]65
Clients who won't pay your bills? Inadequate construction budgets? Client bodies with unclear lines of authority? If you can relate to any (or all) of the above, this book places you in good company. The story of the commission, design, construction and refurbishment of Le Corbusier's Pavillon Suisse--the Swiss house of the Cite Internationale Universitaire de Paris (CIUP)--alarmingly illustrates how little has changed in the procurement of buildings over the last 75 years.
We are taken on a journey through time, starting with the ...