Entrée principale:

Pearson, Christopher E. M.

Titre et auteur:

Designing UNESCO : art, architecture and international politics at mid-century / Christopher E.M. Pearson.

Publication:

Farnham, Surrey ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, 2010.

Description:

xx, 389 pages : illustrations, 1 plan, portraits ; 26 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
The dialectics of modernism : UNESCO as form and symbol -- Reconstruction and synthesis: the institutional and intellectual origins of UNESCO -- "Synthesis of the major arts" : Le Corbusier in Paris and at the United Nations -- UNESCO headquarters: the first project, 1952 -- UNESCO headquarters: the Porte Maillot project, 1952 -- UNESCO headquarters: the final project, 1953 -- UNESCO headquarters: construction 1953-58 -- The art advisers -- Sun, moon, constellation and reclining figure: the art of UNESCO -- Conclusions.
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Library copy: selected for the Multidisciplinary Research Project on "Architecture and/for the Environment", 2017-2019, developed by the CCA with the generous support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Dust jacket.

Résumé:

This is a 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.

ISBN:

9780754667834 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
0754667839 (hardcover ; alk. paper)

Sujet:

Unesco Buildings.
Unesco.
Maison de l'Unesco (Paris, France)
Architecture France Paris History.
Architecture Political aspects France Paris History 20th century.
Art France Paris.
Architecture France Paris Histoire.
Architecture.
Architecture Political aspects.
Art.
Buildings.
Architecture France Paris 20th century.
Arkitektur politiska aspekter Frankrike Paris 1900-talet.
Architecture France Paris History 20th century.
Paris (France) Buildings, structures, etc.
France Paris.
UNESCO Paris Konferenzgebäude

Classification/genre:

History.

Exemplaires:

Localisation: Bibliothèque main 269147
Cote: BIB 201195
Statut: Disponible