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Designing UNESCO - Art, Architecture and International Politics at Mid-Century (Paperback)
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Designing UNESCO - Art, Architecture and International Politics at Mid-Century (Paperback)
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Designing UNESCO: Art, Architecture and International Politics at
Mid-Century represents the first full-length monograph on the
genesis, construction and reception of the Paris headquarters of
the United Nations' Educational, Scientific and Cultural
Organization (UNESCO). The book traces the long and complex birth
of UNESCO's permanent seat from its conception in 1950 to its
inauguration in 1958, showing how its history constitutes a unique
nexus of modernist practices in twentieth-century international
politics, art, architecture and criticism. Drawing on a wide range
of unpublished archival material and examining critical reception
of the building in the local and international press, Christopher
Pearson's analysis operates on formal, structural and theoretical
levels, revealing many of the largely unspoken assumptions of
modern architecture at mid-century and elucidating the conflicted
relation between art and science in the post-war period. The volume
also throws new light on many of the major architects and artists
of the period, among them Breuer, Gropius, Le Corbusier and Eero
Saarinen, as well as Picasso, Moore, MirA(3), Arp, Calder and
Noguchi. Designing UNESCO is a compelling and original account of
one of the most important, yet under-appreciated, buildings of
twentieth-century modernism.
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