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Title	TWA TERMINAL
View	View from the north
Notes	station
Work Type	airport terminal
Style/Period	Modern Expressionism
Creator Name	Saarinen, Eero
Creator Nationality	American firm
School of Creator	Modern
Contributors to Project	engineer Boyd G. Anderson
Major Design Aspects	futuristic interlocking isolated prominent enclosure structure expressed
Elements & Spatial Types	info kiosk mezzanine skylight canopy
Climate Type	temperate
Country	United States of America
City	New York
State/Province	NY
Alternate Place Names	Long Island
Architectural Material	concrete, glass
Structural System	thin-shell structure
Dates	1956-1962
Century	20C
Designation/Awards/Inscriptions	landmark
Photographer	Scott Gilchrist, Archivision
Date Photographed	4/30/1997
Subject Information	One of the most self-assured, self-confident„even self-conscious„buildings to emerge as a result of the interplay of the architectonic and engineer-inspired buildings was Saarinen's TWA Terminal Buildings at New York. It alarmed the remaining purists of modern architecture. Its bird-like symbolism, exciting forms and cavernous interior were not simply a casual reminder of the changes that had taken place in architectural thinking in the 1950s, but a demonstration of the architect's role as an originator and, in the American scene, as a 'building stylist'...Clearly it represented a revival of architectural Expressionism... source, Dennis Sharp, Twentieth Century Architecture: a Visual History, p 245. / '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.' Source, Eero Saarinen, 1959 from Peter Gossel and Gabriele Leuthauser. Architecture in the Twentieth Century, p 250.
Credit Line	Archivision Inc. (all images copyright Scott Gilchrist / Archivision.com)
Collection Title	Archivision (architecture, urban design, gardens, landscapes and public art)
Collection information	Collection administered by the Visual Resources manager, Architecture Library, (402) 472-1193

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