A STUDY ON THE ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN OF THE INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION FOR THE ‘PALAIS DES NATIONS’

This study is an attempt to evaluate the architectural design of the top 27 proposals in the international competition for the ‘Palais des Nations’ in 1926-27. The drawings on the proposals which collected in some archives were classified in terms of the site planning, the external appearance, and the circulation. It was revealed that the architecture of classicism corresponded to the characteristics of the site as well as the modern architecture by means of the arrangement of the buildings for the assembly hall and the secretariat to sustain the Lake Geneva landscape.