Download or read book Embassies: 50 Years of Foreign Buildings by the Federal Republic of Germany written by and published by . This book was released on 2002-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Diplomatic missions abroad represent their home countries in many ways, the most visible of which may be the structures that house them. The design of embassies poses a representational problem fit for the most diplomatic of architects. As traced in through the essays collected here, the German embassies built over the last 50 years have instigated a particularly difficult and challenging search for appropriate architectural expression.