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dc.coverage.spatialSite: Paris, Île-de-France, Franceen_US
dc.coverage.temporal1953-1958 (creation)en_US
dc.creatorBreuer, Marcelen_US
dc.creatorNervi, Pier Luigien_US
dc.creatorZehrfuss, Bernard Louisen_US
dc.date1953-1958en_US
dc.date.accessioned2013-04-29T15:16:07Z
dc.date.available2013-04-29T15:16:07Z
dc.date.issued1953-1958en_US
dc.identifier212132en_US
dc.identifier.otherarchrefid: 54en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1721.3/119623
dc.descriptionAuditorium, general view of northeast façade; The 1953 commission for UNESCO headquarters in Paris was a turning point for Breuer: a return to Europe, a return to larger projects after years of only residential commissions, and the beginning of Breuer's adoption of concrete as his primary medium. Plans for the three buildings of the headquarters were prepared jointly by Marcel Breuer of the United States, Pier Luigi Nervi of Italy and Bernard Zehrfuss of France; they were approved by an international panel of five architects: Lucio Costa (Brazil), Walter Gropius (United States), Charles Le Corbusier (France), Sven Markelius (Sweden) and Ernesto Rogers (Italy). American architect Eero Saarinen was also consulted. Source: UNESCO [United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization]; http://portal.unesco.org/en/ (accessed 12/26/2007)en_US
dc.format.mediumconcrete; steel; glassen_US
dc.rights© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.en_US
dc.subjectarchitectural exteriorsen_US
dc.subjectUnited Nationsen_US
dc.subjectModernisten_US
dc.titleUNESCO Headquartersen_US
dc.title.alternativeMaison de l'Unescoen_US
dc.typeimageen_US
dc.rights.accessLicensed for educational and research use by the MIT community onlyen_US
dc.identifier.vendorcode1A1-BM-U-D4en_US
vra.culturalContextFrenchen_US
vra.techniqueconstruction (assembling)en_US
vra.worktypeoffice buildingen_US
vra.worktypemixed-use developmenten_US
vra.worktypeauditoriumen_US
dc.contributor.displayBernard Louis Zehrfuss (French architect, 1911-1996); Marcel Breuer (American architect, 1902-1981); Pier Luigi Nervi (Italian architect, 1891-1979)en_US


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