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Eero Saarinen was a Finnish-American architect and industrial designer of the 20th century. He is best known for his modernist designs and furniture, as well as his contribution to the architectural world with structures like the Gateway Arch in St. Louis, the TWA Terminal at JFK Airport in New York, and the Ingalls Hockey Rink at Yale University. He is widely regarded as one of the most important architects of the mid-20th century.
In a truly minimalist interior, furniture cannot hide. Strip a room back to its essentials: bare planes, concrete, glass, light, and space, and every object left in it reads as…
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Eero Saarinen’s MIT Chapel in Cambridge is a compact, cylindrical sanctuary set within a shallow moat and paired compositionally with the adjacent Kresge Auditorium. Completed in 1955, the project organizes…
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Completed in 1962 on Yale’s northern campus, Eero Saarinen’s Morse and Ezra Stiles Residential Colleges recast the residential college as an urban ensemble of towers, lanes, and irregular courts rather…
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Eero Saarinen’s David S. Ingalls Rink at Yale University is characterized by an unusually long span, organized around a single structural idea: a longitudinal concrete catenary spine that supports a…
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Located in the heart of Columbus, Indiana, the Miller House and Garden is a masterpiece of mid-century modern architecture, designed by architect Eero Saarinen for industrialist and philanthropist J. Irwin…
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Nestled in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles stands the Eames House, also known as Case Study House No. 8. It is more than just a work of mid-century…
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The TWA Flight Center, designed by Eero Saarinen and Associates, is a landmark airport terminal and hotel complex at JFK Airport in New York City. Constructed between 1959 and 1962…
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