US Embassies of the Cold War: The Architecture of Democracy, Diplomacy and Defense by David B. Peterson is a large-format, photo-driven architecture book, which features the fourteen most significant midcentury modern American Embassies built during the Cold War. The 171-page hardcover book contains a wealth of over 200 previously unpublished archival images of diplomatic buildings designed by some of the twentieth century's most celebrated and influential architects, including Bauhaus founder Walter Gropius, Marcel Breuer, Eero Saarinen, Edward Durell Stone, and more.
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