CLIENT OBJECTIVES - The U.S. Department of State wanted a master plan and design completed within a record time, fulfilling security and sustainable design requirements, and demonstrating sensitivity to the culture of the host country. Architectural Advisor to the U.S. DOS Pietro Belluschi wrote in 1954 that the best way to display high American architectural achievements for diplomatic purposes is for “The sensitive and imaginative designer… to give serious study to local climate and site conditions, to understand and sympathize with local customs, and to grasp the historical meaning of the particular environment in which the new building must be set.”

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