A Workshop for Peace: Designing the United Nations Headquarters

By George Dudley and George A. Dudley

George Dudley is an architect and planner who was present and kept official notes of the 45 meetings of the international Board of Design for the United Nations. In this book he unfolds the first eyewitness account of the creation of a landmark building that was functionally and symbolically important in its time, marking the emergence of modern architecture as the dominant language of post-war institutions and cities. In tackling long-standing questions of authorship, Dudley reproduces pages from Le Corbusier's UN, sketchbook for that period, long thought to be irretrievably lost, and sheds new light on Le Corbusier's contribution to the design process.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262041375
• ISBN13: 9780262041379
• Release Date: June 1994
• Publisher: Mit Pr
• Length: 429 Pages
• Weight: 3.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 11.5" x 1.3" x 8.8"