Olga Touloumi PhD ’14 published her first monograph, Assembly by Design: The United Nations and Its Global Interior (University of Minnesota Press, 2024). Assembly by Design examines how architects experimented with plans, media, and design to create a new type of public space at the United Nations headquarters: the global interior.
In essence, the book looks back at a moment of hope when politicians, architects, and diplomats—believing that assembly was a matter of design—collaborated to deliver platforms for democracy on a planetary scale.
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