COMPARATIVE

ARCHITECTURE THOUGHT

SUPERVISED BY:

ARCH.AHMED FALATA DR. FAROQ MOFTI

ADEL BUKHARI 1009228

TWA TERMINAL

Gates in the terminal were close to the street and this made it difficult to

create centralized ticketing and security checkpoints. This building was the

first airline terminal to have closed circuit television, a central p/a system,

baggage carousels, an electronic schedule board and precursors to the now

ubiquitous baggage weigh-in scales. JFK was rare in the airport industry for

having company owned and designed terminals; other airline terminals were

built by Eastern Airlines and American Airlines. Individually branded

terminals included the Worldport of Pan American World Airways and the

Sundrome of National Airlines.

Design of the terminal was awarded to Detroit-based

Eero Saarinen and Associates. It was completed in

1962 and is the airport's most famous landmark (as

well as being a National Historic Landmark).

architect

Eero Saarinen

location John F. Kennedy

International

Airport (formerly

Idlewild)

date

1962

style

Futurist

construction

reinforced

concrete

type Utility

THE HEINZ GALINSKI SCHOOL

The school was designed based on sunflower. The sunflower is

a metaphor, not in some abstract geometry, but because the

way the building absorbs the light and projects it inside. The

sunflower is actually catching the sun, this, there are no parallel

walls in the school to imitate the sunflower pattern, it turns with

the sun as the school absorbs the light.

architect

location

Total area

type

Zvi Hecker

Berlin, Germany

16,404 m2

educational

AL QURNA VILLAGE

architect

Hassan Fathy

location

Al qurna luxor egypt

date 1946

style islamic

type

housing

In 1946 Hasan Fathy was

commissioned by Egypt’s

Antiquities Department to

build New Gourna Village

for 3,000 families who

were raiding the ruins at

Luxor. The villagers

weren’t so excited about

being displaced, but

Fathy committed to

smoothing their

transition.