{"id":2581,"date":"2015-03-31T14:05:50","date_gmt":"2015-03-31T18:05:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/arthistory\/?p=2581"},"modified":"2015-03-31T14:05:54","modified_gmt":"2015-03-31T18:05:54","slug":"building-the-case-design-and-media-at-the-international-military-tribunal-c-1945","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/arthistory\/?p=2581","title":{"rendered":"Building the Case: Design and Media at the International Military Tribunal, c. 1945"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Dean of the College and the Art History Program<br \/>\npresent<br \/>\n<strong>Olga Touloumi<\/strong><br \/>\nHarvard University<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/arthistory\/files\/2015\/03\/Untitled-copy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"  wp-image-2582 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/arthistory\/files\/2015\/03\/Untitled-copy.jpg\" alt=\"Untitled copy\" width=\"291\" height=\"216\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/arthistory\/files\/2015\/03\/Untitled-copy.jpg 709w, https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/arthistory\/files\/2015\/03\/Untitled-copy-300x223.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 291px) 100vw, 291px\" \/><\/a>During four short months in the summer of 1945, the Office of Strategic Services, IBM, and landscape architect Dan Kiley prepared Courtroom 600 for the Nuremberg Trials. Planned as a\u00a0\u201cworld spectacle,\u201d the project required a wide mobilization of resources and technologies that crossed national and institutional boundaries. Scholars have extensively discussed the legal and diplomatic history of the International Military Tribunal, along with its implications for international law in the post-World War II period, but little attention has been paid to the position of the courtroom itself in this seminal event.<\/p>\n<p>This lecture will unravel the role of design and architecture in the Nuremberg Trials, explaining that both served to produce international law as an integral component of the world organization that the United Nations announced. By looking into the series of projects that led to the final courtroom design, I will\u00a0discuss\u00a0the debates on\u00a0representation, mediation, and participation that informed this interior.\u00a0Ultimately, I argue,\u00a0in the Nuremberg Courtroom designers and officials reconceived architecture as a mobile technology to transfer and implement models of legal space across expansive and contested networks of global communication.<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday, March 31, 2015<br \/>\n4:30 pm<br \/>\nRKC 101<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Dean of the College and the Art History Program present Olga Touloumi Harvard University During four short months in the summer of 1945, the Office of Strategic Services, IBM, and landscape architect Dan Kiley prepared Courtroom 600 for the Nuremberg Trials. Planned as a\u00a0\u201cworld spectacle,\u201d the project required a wide mobilization of resources and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":144,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-notes-from-the-chair"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/arthistory\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/arthistory\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/arthistory\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/arthistory\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/144"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/arthistory\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2581"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/arthistory\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2585,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/arthistory\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2581\/revisions\/2585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/arthistory\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/arthistory\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/arthistory\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}