  Arnold Newman, Courtesy Eero Saarinen Collection, Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University

 Designed by the architect Eero Saarinen and completed in 1955, the MIT Chapel is a non-denominational space of worship and reflection. It is located in the MIT campus, next to the Kresge Auditorium and Kresge Oval, which were also designed by Saarinen. Its most striking features are its windowless cylinder form made of brick, its ondulating interior walls, and the altar, which presents a metal sculpture designed by Harry Bertoia which evokes a cascade of light. 

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 Ezra Stoller / Esto  Ezra Stoller / Esto

 Wayne Andrews / Esto  Wayne Andrews / Esto

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MIT Chapel

 Designed by the architect Eero Saarinen and completed in 1955, the Kresge auditorium houses a concert hall, a small theatre, two rehearsal rooms, dressing rooms, offices, bathrooms, and lounges. It is located in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology campus, next to the MIT Chapel and Kresge Oval, a round green space. 

Kresge Auditorium

 Opened in 1962, the TWA Flight Center (also known as the Trans World Flight Center) is designed by Eero Saarinen for Trans World Airlines at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK). Conceived with notions of speed as well as references to a bird, the TWA features a prominent wing-shaped thin shell roof over the main terminal of the JFK. The concrete shell, which inspired Saarinen to develop curvilinear ceramic tiles, established the TWA as a modernist piece of architecture that challenged the modernist notion of simplistic linearity. 

  Beyer Blinder Belle Architects & Planners LLP,  Port Authority of New York & New Jersey

 Beyer Blinder Belle Architects & Planners LLP / Port Authority NY/NJ

 &copy;Yale University Manuscripts and Archives

 Upper Level plan &amp;amp;&amp;nbsp;Lower Level plan  Beyer Blinder Belle Architects & Planners LLP / Port Authority NY/NJ

 Upper Level plan &amp;amp; Lower level plan  Beyer Blinder Belle Architects & Planners LLP / Port Authority NY/NJ

TWA Flight Center

Donald Fram, Chief Architect of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, discusses the historic renovation of Eero Saarinen's TWA Terminal at New York City's JFK Airport.

Richard Southwick of Beyer Blinder Belle Architects & Planners LLP discusses the historic renovation of Eero Saarinen's TWA Terminal at New York City's JFK Airport.

<p>Designed by Eero Saarinen in 1958, and constructed in 1960, Hill College House is an internationally recognized architectural landmark located at the corner of 33rd and Walnut Streets. Originally a women's dormitory, the building's entry features an allegorical bridge over an ivy filled "moat" and its surrounding spiked metal fence. The living spaces, including five floors of double bedrooms, accommodate 500 students. Student lounges and seminar rooms are built around a vast central atrium that overlooks a dining area on the lower level.<a href="https://culturenow.org/people/university-of-pennsylvania?name=University_of_Pennsylvania"><sup>[1]</sup></a></p>

Hill College House

 The Eames House, Case Study House #8, was one of roughly two dozen homes built as part of The Case Study House Program. Begun in the mid-1940s and continuing through the early 1960s, the program was spearheaded by John Entenza, the publisher of Arts and Architecture magazine. Charles and Ray then set themselves a new problem: How to build a house that would: 1) not destroy the meadow and, 2) &ldquo;maximize volume from minimal materials&rdquo;. Using the same off-the-shelf parts, but notably ordering one extra steel beam, Charles and Ray re-configured the House. The new design integrated the House into the landscape, rather than imposing the House on it. These plans were published in the May 1949 of the magazine. It is this design that was built and is seen today. The first plan of the Eameses` home, known as the Bridge House, was designed in 1945 by Charles Eames and Eero Saarinen. The design used pre-fabricated materials ordered from catalogues, a continuation of the idea of mass-production. The parts were ordered and the Bridge House design was published in the December 1945 issue of the magazine, but due to a war-driven shortage, the steel did not arrive until late 1948. By then, Charles and Ray had &ldquo;fallen in love with the meadow,&rdquo; in Ray`s words, and felt that the site required a different solution. Charles and Ray moved into the House on Christmas Eve, 1949, and lived there for the rest of their lives. The interior, its objects and its collections remain very much the way they were in Charles and Ray`s lifetimes. The house they created offered them a space where work, play, life, and nature co-existed. 

Eames House (Case Study House #8)

Eero Saarinen was born in Kirkkonummi, Finland in 1910 and emigrated with his family to the U.S. in 1923. He studied sculpture at the Académie de la Grande Chaumiére in Paris in 1929-30 and architecture at Yale University, graduating in 1934. After traveling in Europe on a scholarship, he returned to the U.S. to teach at the Cranbrook Academy of Art. In 1937, he collaborated with Charles Eames on a series of prize-winning furniture designs. He worked in the architectural office of his father until Eliel Saarinen's death in 1950, when the firm became Eero Saarinen and Associates. In addition to Kresge Auditorium and the Chapel at MIT, Saarinen's outstanding designs include Dulles International Airport, outside Washington, D.C.; the TWA Terminal, JFK Airport, New York; and the Gateway Arch, St. Louis. The last three projects were completed by Saarinen's his partners, Kevin Roche and John Dinkeloo, after his death. Eero Saarinen died in Ann Arbor, Michigan in 1961. 

Eero Saarinen

SITES

ADDITIONAL PHOTOGRAPHS

PLAYLISTS CURATED by Eero Saarinen