Eero Saarinen Architect, Building, Architecture, Photo, America

Finnish-American architect

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Eero Saarinen: Major Projects



Key Buildings:
MIT Chapel, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA 1955
TWA Terminal, New York, USA 1962
Dulles International Airport, Virginia, USA 1962

Two Projects in more detail:
TWA Building - New York Airport (JFK)
Terminal 5, John F Kennedy International Airport, Jamaica, New York
1956-62
Wonderful organic architecture in a style that went out of fashion but at the start of the 21st century seemed to come back into fashion with the work of Ushida Findlay, Foreign Office Architects and to a certain extent architects such as Zaha Hadid.

St Louis Gateway Arch, Missouri, USA
1961-66
630ft high, 630 ft wide; competition winner from 1947

Eero Saarinen: American Embassy London, England, UK

photograph © adrian welch



New York Architects

Eero Saarinen : War Memorial Wisconsin, USA

Wisconsin Architecture

Eero Saarinen died aged 51 in 1961

Buildings (alphabetical):
Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs, Holmdel
1957
Eero Saarinen with landscape architects Sasaki, Walker & Associates
American Embassy, Mayfair, London, UK
1955
Case Study House, Pacific Palisades, USA
1945
Dulles International Airport, Virginia, USA
1962
General Motors Technical Center, USA
1945
IBM Campus, Minnesota, USA
1958
John Deere Headquarters, Moline, Illinois, USA
1964
Kresge Auditorium, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
1955
MIT Chapel, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA
1955
TWA Terminal, New York, USA
1962
University of Pennsylvania Women’s Dormitory, USA
1960

Eliel Saarinen Architect

American Buildings

Modern Houses



Furniture designs with Charles Eames

Book: Eero Saarinen
Author: Jayne Merkel
Publisher: Phaidon
2005

World Architecture : e-architect - a guide to key buildings across the globe

Eliel Saarinen - Finnish buildings

Modern Architects

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