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EERO SAARINEN
 BIOGRAPHY
 Eero Saarinen was a Finnish-American architect and
Industrial designer born in the year 1910.
 His father Eliel Saarinen was a noted and respected
architect.
 And mother was Loja Saarinen, a gifted sculptor, weaver,
photographer, and architectural model maker.
 He is famous for shaping his neofuturistic style according to
the demands of the project.
 His designs involved simple, sweeping, arching structural
curves or machine-like rationalism.
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 He died of a brain tumour in 1961 at the age of 51.

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 PHILOSOPHY
 Saarinen adapted his neofuturistic vision to each individual client and
project, which were never exactly the same.

 He learnt at an early age that each object should be designed in its "next
largest context - a chair in a room, a room in a house, a house in an
environment, environment in a city plan.“

 His opinion was that, "...all parts of an architectural composition must

be parts of the same form-world.“

 He was an architect who refused to be restrained by any preconceived

idea
 AWARDS
 1940 With Charles Eames wins two first prizes for furniture
design, Museum of Modern Art.

 1960 Elected Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Letters.

 1962 Posthumously awarded Gold Medal, American Institute of

Architects.

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 FAMOUS WORKS

• Gateway Arch
• MIT Chapel
• TWA Terminal
• Miller House

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Gateway arch

⬩ St. Louis, Missouri

⬩ Designated a National Historic Landmark
in 1987
⬩ The Gateway Arch marked the beginning
of his career

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 MIT Chapel
⬩ Cambridge, Massachusetts
⬩ Date of completion: 1955

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TWA Terminal

⬩ New York City, New York, USA

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Miller House

⬩ Columbus, Indiana

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TWA TERMINAL

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Introduction
⬩ Location: New York City, New York, USA
⬩ Year of design: 1956
⬩ Year of completion: 1962
⬩ Became an official landmark: 1994, voted on by the Landmarks
Preservation Commission
⬩ Shut down in the year: 2001

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Designing Concept
⬩ The client wanted this building to capture the "spirit of
flight“.
⬩ In order to capture the concept of flight, Saarinen used
curves to create spaces that flowed into one another.
⬩ The exterior's concrete roof imitates a bird in flight with
two massive "wings“.

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⬩ The interior consists of a continuous ribbon of
elements, all whisking themselves in from the exterior,
so that ceilings continuously run into walls and those
walls become floors.

⬩ The swooping concrete curves that embraced flyers into

the jet age.

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"All the curves, all the spaces and elements right down
to the shape of the signs, display boards, railings and
check-in desks were to be of a matching nature. We
wanted passengers passing through the building to
experience a fully-designed environment, in which each
part arises from another and everything belongs to the
same formal world," stated Eero Saarinen during
construction in 1959.

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Site Plan

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Method of Construction and Materials
Used
• The structure consists of a shell of reinforced concrete with four
segments that extend outward from a central point.
• The concrete "wings" then unfold on either side of the exterior,
preparing for flight.
• Within the concrete, the structure is reinforced with a web of steel.

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 Wing No. 2 Section & Elevation

Wing No. 1 Section

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References
 http://bit.ly/2SiN7nj
 https://www.theartstory.org/artist/saarinen-eero/life-and-
legacy/
 https://study.com/academy/lesson/architect-eero-saarinen-
biography-buildings.html
 https://www.britannica.com/biography/Kevin-Roche
 http://bit.ly/39lz45V

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Presented by

ROSHAN KUMAR DAS

(1905025)

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Thanks!

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