Ten Cold War US embassies that embody America's 20th-century "victorious exuberance"

Embassies designed for the United States by Walter Gropius and Eero Saarinen feature in this roundup based on David B Peterson's book US Embassies of the Cold War: The Architecture of Democracy, Diplomacy and Defense.
"These mid-century modern embassies were built as a billboard for democracy," Peterson told Dezeen. "By the end of world war two, neoclassicism had come to be widely associated with fascism."
"By designing the United States' first purpose-built embassies in an explicitly