Transnational Institutions

The “United Nations” of Eastern-European émigrés

Transatlantic institutions organizing German-American elite networking since the early 1950s

A German-Jewish Newspaper as “Heimat” in Exile

German art, architecture and design school of the interwar period

International architecture and urban planning congresses

Measures used to gauge the state of economic affairs

Introducing European modernism in graphic and corporate design

Advertising agency that developed the “Think Small” campaign for the Volkswagen Beetle

Building transatlantic networks in science and learning

Relief committee dedicated to the rescue of artists and intellectuals from Vichy France

U.S. program to support nations in post-World War II Europe, also known as the Marshall Plan

Funding transatlantic exchange between the arts and politics

Providing Aid to Exiles and Cold War Propaganda for the United States

This institute was established to help Austria overcome the intellectual depletion caused by authoritarian regimes in the 1930s and 1940s.

A transnational network of exchange on urban development that grew out of the garden city movement

Modernist furniture company at the heart of transatlantic interior design networks

Transatlantic taste-maker and promoter of modern architecture and design

Envisioning a consumerist future in a transnational setting

The United States' first central intelligence agency

Early attempt in media audience research involving many European emigres