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The TWA Terminal

Author: Ezra Stoller
Publisher: New York : Princeton Architectural Press, ©1999.
Series: Building blocks series (New York, N.Y.)
Edition/Format:   Book : English : 1st edView all editions and formats
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"Eero Saarinen's TWA Terminal stands as the ultimate icon of midcentury modern design. Commissioned in 1956 and completed in 1962, the bird-like terminal at New York's John F. Kennedy Airport was intentionally designed as an eye-catching showpiece that would capture the public's imagination. Its expressionistic concrete exterior and soaring interior spaces did just that, making it one of the most dramatic
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Genre/Form: Pictorial works
Ouvrages illustrés
Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Stoller, Ezra.
TWA Terminal.
New York : Princeton Architectural Press, c1999
(OCoLC)607351342
Named Person: Eero Saarinen; Eero Saarinen; Eero Saarinen
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Ezra Stoller
ISBN: 1568981821 9781568981826
OCLC Number: 40534860
Description: 87 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Series Title: Building blocks series (New York, N.Y.)
Responsibility: photographs by Ezra Stoller ; introduction by Mark Lamster.
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Part of the "Building Blocks Series" presenting icons of modern architecture, this book presents the photographic work of Ezra Stoller concentrating on the TWA Terminal. It features a historical  Read more...

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