Word: saarinen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Privacy's Penalty. TWA opened new terminals in 17 cities, including its architectural masterpiece by the late Eero Saarinen at New York's Kennedy Airport, developed such an efficient maintenance center in Kansas City that several other lines have engines overhauled there...
...flying around the lecture circuit or to Europe, works them out only on weekends. A scholar as well, he has taught in seven colleges since graduating with an M.A. from Yale, written four books, including biographies of the artists George Caleb Bingham, Boardman Robinson and Finnish-born Architect Eliel Saarinen, under whom he worked at Michigan's Cranbrook Academy...
Sets Overhead. The end of the affair did not come until Saarinen's premature death in 1961, but by then final plans were all but complete. Bunshaft, as Mr. Outside, had given the theater a mighty proscenium entrance with a towering concrete truss that spans 150 ft., yet rests on only two columns. Fronting it is a shimmering reflecting pool, set off by British Sculptor Henry Moore's Reclining Figure (see color...
...Inside, Eero Saarinen teamed up with Broadway Set Designer Jo Mielziner; the two men set out to design the most modern and flexible theater that they could conceive of, including an automated console programmed to control the saturation lighting for a three-hour show, a stage containing a motorized turntable, 36 ft. in diameter, large enough to handle an entire production, with an independently rotating 5-ft. outer ring left over. And tucked away overhead was space for the sets of five shows...
Actors from the Audience. To see how the ideas would work out, Saarinen took over an abandoned movie theater in Pontiac, Mich., built a full-scale mockup. To find out what was needed, Mielziner plotted out 150 plays that he had designed (among them Death of a Salesman, The King and I, South Pacific), discovered that the main action in almost every play took place in a triangle whose base rested on the footlights. Mielziner and Saarinen boldly flipped the triangle so that it was pointing out into the audience, thus doubling the prime acting area available. When the extra...