NEW BOOK
US Embassies of The Cold War
The Architecture of Democracy, Diplomacy and Defense
By David B. Peterson
“[This book] is an open-eyed investigation into the results of the unlikely meeting between progressive culture and public policy at a particular moment in time. With an extraordinary collection of photographs and graphics not seen elsewhere, Peterson enables us to know that past, reckon with what was once significant, and learn about options that may exist today or tomorrow in a rapidly changing global landscape”
–Jane Loeffler, Ph.D, historian and author.
US Embassies of The Cold War
The Architecture of Democracy, Diplomacy and Defense
by David B. Peterson
The large-format, photo driven book features the fourteen most significant midcentury modern American Embassies built during the Cold War. Using a wealth of previously unpublished archival images, this book is a timely exploration of the surprising relationship between architecture and geopolitics during one of the most dangerous periods in the global battle of democracy vs. communism.
“Building awareness is the first step to preserving an existing building. David Peterson’s book is therefore a form of preservation activism as much as it is work of careful scholarship.”
–Jorge Otero-Pailos, Director and Professor of Historic Preservation at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation.
“Every building embodies the spirit of its age. There was a time, before the Age of Terrorism, when America’s public architecture celebrated freedom, openness, and a great hope for the future. As David Peterson reveals in this fine book, those buildings and those ideals need to be remembered.”
–Eric Schlosser, Author of Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident and the Illusion of Safety (2014 Pulitzer Prize Finalist in History)
