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Assembly by Design
The United Nations and Its Global Interior
Taschenbuch von Olga Touloumi
Sprache: Englisch

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How the United Nations headquarters became the architectural instrument and broadcast medium of global diplomacy For almost seven years after World War II, a small group of architects took on an exciting task: to imagine the spaces of global governance for a new political organization called the United Nations (UN). To create the iconic headquarters of the UN in New York City, these architects experimented with room layouts, media technologies, and design in tribunal courtrooms, assembly halls, and council chambers. The result was the creation of a new type of public space, the global interior. Assembly by Design shows how this space leveraged media to help the UN communicate with the world. With its media infrastructure, symbols, acoustic design, and architecture, the global interior defined political assembly both inside and outside the UN headquarters, serving as the architectural medium to organize multilateral encounters of international publics around the globe. Demonstrating how aesthetics have long held sway over political work, Olga Touloumi posits that the building framed diplomacy on the ground amid a changing political landscape that brought the United States to the forefront of international politics, destabilizing old and establishing new geopolitical alliances. Uncovering previously closed institutional and family archives, Assembly by Design offers new information about the political and aesthetic decisions that turned the UN headquarters into a communications organism. It looks back at a moment of hope, when politicians, architects, and diplomats-believing that assembly was a matter of design-worked together to deliver platforms for global democracy and governance.
How the United Nations headquarters became the architectural instrument and broadcast medium of global diplomacy For almost seven years after World War II, a small group of architects took on an exciting task: to imagine the spaces of global governance for a new political organization called the United Nations (UN). To create the iconic headquarters of the UN in New York City, these architects experimented with room layouts, media technologies, and design in tribunal courtrooms, assembly halls, and council chambers. The result was the creation of a new type of public space, the global interior. Assembly by Design shows how this space leveraged media to help the UN communicate with the world. With its media infrastructure, symbols, acoustic design, and architecture, the global interior defined political assembly both inside and outside the UN headquarters, serving as the architectural medium to organize multilateral encounters of international publics around the globe. Demonstrating how aesthetics have long held sway over political work, Olga Touloumi posits that the building framed diplomacy on the ground amid a changing political landscape that brought the United States to the forefront of international politics, destabilizing old and establishing new geopolitical alliances. Uncovering previously closed institutional and family archives, Assembly by Design offers new information about the political and aesthetic decisions that turned the UN headquarters into a communications organism. It looks back at a moment of hope, when politicians, architects, and diplomats-believing that assembly was a matter of design-worked together to deliver platforms for global democracy and governance.
Über den Autor

Olga Touloumi is associate professor of architectural history at Bard College. She is coeditor of Computer Architectures: Constructing the Common Ground.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

Abbreviations

Introduction: The Global Interior

1. Staging the World

2. Cultures of Assembly

3. The Voice of the World

4. The Headquarters and the Field

Epilogue: Itinerant Platforms

Acknowledgments

Notes

Index

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2024
Genre: Importe, Politikwissenschaften
Rubrik: Wissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9781517913335
ISBN-10: 1517913330
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Touloumi, Olga
Hersteller: University of Minnesota Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: preigu, Ansas Meyer, Lengericher Landstr. 19, D-49078 Osnabrück, mail@preigu.de
Maße: 178 x 253 x 21 mm
Von/Mit: Olga Touloumi
Erscheinungsdatum: 04.11.2024
Gewicht: 0,664 kg
Artikel-ID: 128856336
Über den Autor

Olga Touloumi is associate professor of architectural history at Bard College. She is coeditor of Computer Architectures: Constructing the Common Ground.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

Abbreviations

Introduction: The Global Interior

1. Staging the World

2. Cultures of Assembly

3. The Voice of the World

4. The Headquarters and the Field

Epilogue: Itinerant Platforms

Acknowledgments

Notes

Index

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2024
Genre: Importe, Politikwissenschaften
Rubrik: Wissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9781517913335
ISBN-10: 1517913330
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Touloumi, Olga
Hersteller: University of Minnesota Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: preigu, Ansas Meyer, Lengericher Landstr. 19, D-49078 Osnabrück, mail@preigu.de
Maße: 178 x 253 x 21 mm
Von/Mit: Olga Touloumi
Erscheinungsdatum: 04.11.2024
Gewicht: 0,664 kg
Artikel-ID: 128856336
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