1952 · Wallace Harrison / international board · North America
The chamber score
First Construction (in Metal)
John Cage · 1939
Percussion as a façade of steel.
An original chamber arrangement in the climate of the work. The recording is not a copy. It is the room answering.
Why it is here
The UN campus on the East River, a monument of postwar internationalism.
Commission the full chamber
This monument is in the atlas. The rebuild can be written for you.
Ask the studio to reconstruct United Nations Headquarters through hope — or shift it into another corridor.
Open a commissionShift the feeling
What if United Nations Headquarters was rebuilt as something else?
Ask the architect
