"Interior of the T.W.A. Flight Center"
Photograph
By: G.E. Kidder Smith
Date: 1962
Source: "Interior of the T.W.A. Flight Center." 1962. Corbis. Image no. GE002291. Avallable online at http://www.corbis.com (accessed June 14, 2003).
About the Architect: Eero Saarinen (1910–1961) was born in Helsinki, Finland, the son of artist Loja Saarinen and co-founder and first president of the Cranbrook Academy of Art, the renowned Finnish architect Eliel Saarinen. The younger Saarinen emigrated to the United States with his family in 1923. He began his studies in Paris, majoring in sculpture. Although this art education was to inform all his later work, after one year he turned to architecture, which he studied at Yale University. After graduating, Saarinen worked in his father's architectural firm and taught at Cranbrook, outside of Detroit, Michigan. Although he would later be known for...
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1960's Fashion Primary Sources
The 1960's: Primary Sources
