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| Architect | Eero Saarinen |
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| Location | Chantilly, Virginia map | ||||
| Date | 1958 to 1962 timeline | ||||
| Building Type | airline terminal | ||||
| Construction System | concrete | ||||
| Climate | temperate | ||||
| Context | suburban | ||||
| Style | Modern | ||||
| Notes | ...and Associates. Swooping roof gives an expression of flight. | ||||
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| Discussion | Dulles Airport Commentary
"Set on a huge (10,000 acre), flat site, this is a highly distinctive building with colonnades of tipped and tapered columns on its two long facades, a gracefully curving roof hung between them, and a pagoda-like control tower nearby. Mobile lounges are used to carry passengers from the terminal to their planes." — from Sylvia Hart Wright. Sourcebook of Contemporary North American Architecture: From Postwar to Postmodern. p116. "At Dulles, Saarinen had a unique series of problems: he was designing a complete new airport, providing a modern gateway to the capital of the nation and building it for the Federal Government. The site was a flat plain. The main terminus is a single, compact structure, not entirely free from formalist tendencies but one which is technically exciting. The final design concept arrived at was a suspended structure, 'high at the front, lower in the middle, slightly higher at the back', generated by a rectangular plan. The building is thus capable of lateral extension." — Dennis Sharp. Twentieth Century Architecture: a Visual History. p252. Details American Institute of Architects 25 Year Award, 1988 | ||||
| Resources |
Sources on Dulles Airport
Donald Corner and Jenny Young. Slide from photographer's collection. PCD.2260.1012.1841.026 Yukio Futagawa, ed. Global Architecture: TWA Terminal Building, Kennedy Airport, New York, and Dulles International Airport, Chantilly, Virginia. Tokyo: A.D.A. Edita Tokyo, 1973. plan, p45. Toshio Nakamura, ed. Architecture and Urbanism Extra Edition: Eero Saarinen. A + U E8404, April, 1984. Tokyo: A + U Publishing Co. p146. drawing of section perspective, p155. color photo of interior, p156. color photo of exterior, p148. Eero Saarinen. Eero Saarinen On His Work. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1968. section drawing, p108. William S. Saunders. Modern Architecture—Photographs by Ezra Stoller. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Publishers, 1990. ISBN 0-8109-3816-2. exterior detail photo, p119. evening view from distance, p151. — A wonderful & inspiring book of beautiful photographs by a true master of architectural photography. Available at Amazon.com Marcus Whiffen and Frederick Koeper. American Architecture, Volume 1. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1984. distant photo, f305, p381. — An excellent survey of American architecture. Reprint Edition available at Amazon.com Kevin Matthews. The Great Buildings Collection on CD-ROM. Artifice, 2001. ISBN 0-9667098-4-5.— Available at Amazon.com
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