A Workshop For Peace: Making a Place for the United Nations Headquarters

Abstract

The United Nations Headquarters were created during the early years of the organisation, made to support the United Nations’ mission for peace. This thesis will show that the location of and spatial dimensions of the UN cannot be overlooked in its history. By placing the United Nations in the United States, the creators of the UN were acknowledging the end of American isolationism and the beginning of a new world order. The designers of the UN Headquarters further solidified the UN as figurehead of a new future by building the Headquarters in a new modernist style that inspired new futuristic architecture. Their design would further solidify how the main bodies of the United Nations operate, and what role they play in international politics.