Archinect - Features 2024-11-23T08:44:43-05:00 https://archinect.com/features/article/150144540/surveying-the-u-s-world-s-fair-pavilions Surveying the U.S. World's Fair Pavilions Archinect 2019-07-04T10:06:00-04:00 >2019-07-11T18:02:27-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/e3/e308a2c0a9c6a137870cc38b34d0363b.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p>As the United States of America once again celebrates <a href="https://archinect.com/features/article/150015857/a-look-at-22-talented-immigrants-expanding-the-definition-of-american-architecture" target="_blank">the anniversary of its declaration of independence</a>, we're surveying some of the patriotic displays of architecture from World's Fair expositions throughout the decades. From aspirational beginnings as a young nation at London's Great Exhibition in 1851 to the iconic, Modernist structures of an emboldening superpower, all the way to the thematic, multimedia mega-pavilions of the contemporary age, US Pavilions across time reflect and have helped shape perceptions of America to itself and the world.</p> <p>We have selected ten pavilions from various historical epochs to offer a passing glance at some of the more noteworthy American pavilions. </p>