
THE POSTWAR WORLD 1950–2000III
MODERNISM AND THE INTERNATIONAL STYLE 1950–19796
CBS AND BLACK ROCK
CBS HEADQUARTERS
CONSTRUCTION BARRICADE
AND SIGN PROGRAM
New York, New York, USA
Lou Dorfsman (1918–2008), Designer
New York, New York, USA
1965
In the 1960s, most major metropolitan cities
throughout the world were in danger of becom-
ing an urban oasis of innocuous aluminum
and glass architectural structures. All of that
changed in 1965 when a new headquarters
building for the Columbia Broadcasting System
(CBS), designed by the modernist architect Eero
Saarinen (1910–1961) with interiors by Florence
Knoll (b. 1917), was completed in New York City.