Author: Dudley, George A.
Title: A Workshop for Peace. Designing the United Nations Headquarters.
Description: New York, The Architectural History Foundation / Cambridge (Mass.), The MIT Press, 1994, cloth, dustjacket, 4to, 415 pp., 211 ills., facsimiles of documents, in 1947, desgin of the UN Headquarters followed an innovative method: internationally recognized architects were brought together from a dozen countries and produced a succesful collaborative result; the core of this book is the author's verbatim account fo the communication and interaction between such major 20th century figures as Le corbisier, Oscar Niemeyer, Sven Markelius, Howard Robertson, Louis Skidmore, Julio Vilamajo, and others; the book contains many facsimile page of the long lost UN sketchbook of Le Corbusier; LIKE NEW condition; VERY RARE. . ISBN: 0262041375.

Keywords: UN Headquarters, New York, United Nations, Le Corbusier


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