Large quarto. Pp. 267. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR Elizabeth Gill Lui "to a lasting peace." Essay by Jane C. Loeffler. With assistance from the Bureau of Overseas Buildings Operations, U.S. Department of State. Lavishly illustrated with color photographs. Grey cloth with silver lettering. Robinson Projection map of world on endpapers. Dustwrapper with color photograph of Chancery, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on front cover; Petschek House, Prague, Czech Republic, on rear cover. New/new.

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Title: Building Diplomacy: The Architecture of American Embassies
Publisher: Four Stops Press. Distributed by Cornell University Press., Los Angeles CA
Publication Date: 2004
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0801443261
ISBN 13: 9780801443268
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: New
Dust Jacket Condition: New
Signed: Inscribed by Author(s)

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Building Diplomacy is a comprehensive photographic documentary featuring the architecture of U.S. embassies. Photographed from November 2000 through November 2003, this body of work is a portrait of America's international diplomatic presence.

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Elizabeth Gill Lui is an internationally known fine-art photographer and educator. Her work has been recognized with grants from the Ford Foundation and the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, which supported the publication of her book Closed Mondays. Jane Loeffler is Visiting Associate Professor in the University Honors Program at the University of Maryland, College Park, and the author of The Architecture of Diplomacy.

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