Constructing America’s Image: Modernist Embassies of the Cold War

In 1954, the State Department gathered an advisory panel of prominent architects, who would review all building plans for the Office of Foreign Buildings Operations. The resulting program of contemporary design gave prominent designers… a chance to showcase America on the international stage… Gordon Bunshaft, Bremen Consulate (1956): Technically not an embassy, this design by the Skidmore, Owings & Merrill architect nevertheless embodied the wave of Modernist construction happening at U.S. diplomatic sites around the world.