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The United Nations' Buildings: An Architectural Evaluation |
| Section: MODERN THOUGHT / ESSAY |
| Author: Francis J. Greene |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 6/1/1995 |
| Size: 2,729 Words, 17,586 Characters |
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But of interest also at this juncture is the architecture of the UN buildings at First Avenue and Forty-second Street in Manhattan, overlooking the East River. How has the architecture of the UN held up? Is it dated or passé? Has it aged well? What was the genesis of these structures?
Much of the early deliberations that led to the establishment of the United Nations included, from the outset, a pronounced concern for the architecture of its future headquarters. The UN's founders clearly believed that its architecture would be a major factor in establishing an identity, and in defining its role and position in the world. These beliefs have been fulfilled, for it is the case today that the architectural style of the United Nations has played a major role in constituting a definition of w...
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...Designing the United Nations Headquarters (Massachusetts: MIT Press, 1994), 8.
FOOTNOTE: 2.George Barrett, New York Times, 7 Jan. 1947, 6.
FOOTNOTE: 3.From Wassily Kandinsky, Complete Writings on Art, ed. Lindsay and Vergo (New York: Da Capo Press, 1994), 119--219. All future references give page numbers in parentheses in text.
FOOTNOTE: 4.George Dudley, A Workshop for Peace, 8.
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