Title & Author:

Wright started it, Corbu gave it form, Mies added control / [presented by] Eero Saarinen (Eero Saarinen & Associates).

Publication:

London, England : Pidgeon Digital, 1956.

Description:

1 online resource (1 video file (53 minutes)) : sound, color

Notes:
Eero Saarinen -- Taliesin West, Scottsdale, Arizona By Frank Lloyd Wright 1937 -- 1956. General View Of Studios -- Unite D'habitation, Marseille By Le Corbusier 1947 -- 1952 -- Illinois Institute Of Technology, Chicago By Mies van der Rohe 1945 -- 1958. Crown Hall, College Of Architecture, Planning & Design 1956 -- Jefferson National Expansion Memorial (Gateway Arch), St. Louis, Missouri By Eero Saarinen 1959 -- 1964. The Arch In Relation To The River & The City -- Drake University, Des Moines, Iowa By Eero Saarinen (With Eliel Saarinen) 1947 -- 1950. Dormitory Buildings, Exterior -- Drake University, Des Moines, Iowa By Eero Saarinen (With Eliel Saarinen) 1947 -- 1950. Chapel, Exterior -- MIT Chapel, Cambridge, Massachusetts By Eero Saarinen 1953 -- 1956. Exterior Views With Light-Reflecting 'Moat' -- General Motors Technological Center, Warren, Michigan By Eero Saarinen (With Smith, Hinchman & Grylls) 1948 -- 1956. Corridor -- General Motors Technological Center, Warren, Michigan By Eero Saarinen (With Smith, Hinchman & Grylls) 1948 -- 1956. Entrance Canopy -- Vivian Beaumont Theatre, Lincoln Center, New York By Eero Saarinen 1958 -- 1964. Entrance Approach -- Concordia Senior College, Fort Wayne, Indiana By Eero Saarinen 1953 -- 1958. Dormitories -- Women's Dormitory, University Of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania By Eero Saarinen 1957 -- 1960. Exterior Facade -- US Embassy, London By Eero Saarinen (With Yorke Rosenberg Mardall) 1955 -- 1960. Main Entrance Facade & Detail -- TWA Terminal, JFK Airport, New York By Eero Saarinen 1956 -- 1962. General View From Approach Road & Details Of Concrete Shapes -- TWA Terminal, JFK Airport, New York By Eero Saarinen 1956 -- 1962. Concrete Shapes In The Check-In Area -- MIT, Kresge Auditorium & Cambridge, Massachusetts By Eero Saarinen 1953 -- 1956. Exterior -- Ezra Stiles & Morse Colleges, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut By Eero Saarinen 1958 -- 1962. Views From Street -- Dulles International Airport, Washington D.C./Chantilly, Virginia By Eero Saarinen (With Ammann & Whitney) 1958 -- 1962. Landside View Of The Building & Detail.
Recorded in 1956 at Saarinen's remodelled Victorian house in Bloomfield, Michigan.

Summary:

Eero Saarinen died just aged 51, at the height of his creative powers. His career was jump-started early with the General Motors Technical Center, lauded as the industrial Versailles. He went on to design an array of distinctly different buildings, including the Gateway Arch in St. Louis and the TWA Terminal at JFK Airport, New York, each reflecting the philosophy he shared with Corbusier that every building has within it its own solution. This talk, one of a series conducted by the architectural publisher John Peter. Here he discusses the three great Modernist influences: Frank Lloyd Wright, Le Corbusier and Mies Van der Rohe; the rise of the automobile and the resulting atomisation of the city; and the great body of advice and wisdom passed on to him from his father, not least that architecture must be approached as an art.

Subject:

Architecture Aesthetics.
Architecture, Modern 20th century.
Architecture Esthétique.
Architecture 20e siècle.
Architecture, Modern.

Added entries:

Saarinen, Eero, 1910-1961, narrator.
Peter, John, 1917-1998, narrator.