SAARINEN, EERO

āˈrō säˈrĭnĕn, 1910–61, Finnish-American architect, son of Eliel Saarinen. Saarinen's reputation was established with his design of the General Motors Technical Center, Warren, Mich. (1951–55). His innovations are significant, particularly in domical construction. At the Massachusetts Institute of Technology he built in 1955 the circular brick chapel and also the auditorium, notable for its thin-shelled concrete dome. He followed the principles of suspension bridge construction in the David S. Ingalls Hockey Rink at Yale (1958) and created soaring intersecting concrete vaults for the Trans World Airlines Terminal at Kennedy International Airport, New York City. He erected many collegiate buildings, including those at Concordia Senior College, Fort Wayne, Ind.; Vassar; and the Univ. of Chicago. He also designed the American embassies at London and Oslo. Saarinen died before the completion of two of his greatest projects, the Dulles International Airport near Herndon, Va., and two polygonal college buildings at Yale.

See Eero Saarinen On His Work, ed. by A. Saarinen (rev. ed. 1968).

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books on: Saarinen Eero  - 133 results

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Trends in Modern American Society
Book by John M. Blum, John K. Galbraith, Alexander H. Leighton, Jonathan E. Rhoads, Eero Saarinen, David B. Truman, Daniel D. Williams, Richard W. B. Lewis, Clarence Morris; University of Pennsylvania Press, 1962
Subjects: United States--Civilization--1945-
Problems Facing Architecture Eero Saarinen THE STATE OF ARCHITECTURE IN THE UNITED STATES TODAY IS ON A very high level from many points of view. Modern architecture, which...
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America Builds: Source Documents in American Architecture and Planning
Book by Leland M. Roth; Harper & Row, 1983
Subjects: Architecture--United States, Architecture--United States--Designs And Plans
...conjectured, but the work of Eero Saarinen 1910-1961 , whose life was cut...From Aline Saarinen, ed., Eero Saarinen on His Work New Haven, 1962 , p. 60. Eero Saarinen, "Function, Structure and Beauty...
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Constructing Place: Mind and Matter
Book by Sarah Menin; Routledge, 2003
Subjects: Architecture--Aesthetics--Congresses, Architecture--Psychological Aspects--Congresses, City Planning--Psychological Aspects--Congresses, Space (Architecture)--Congresses, Spatial Behavior--Congresses
...Record , June 1933, vol.63, pp.431-2. 3 Eero Saarinen, The Oral History of Modern Architecture , New York...Architectural Forum , November 1954, p.118. 6 Eero Saarinen, Eero Saarinen on his Work , New Haven: Yale University...
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An Introduction to Design and Culture in the Twentieth Century
Book by Penny Sparke; Harper & Row, 1986
Subjects: Design, Industrial, Design--History--20th Century
...has played a major role in the British design establishment in this century. Saarinen, Eero 1910-61 The son of Eliel Saarinen, the Finnish architect-designer, Eero came to the USA with his father in 1923. He studied architecture at Yale and...
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Encyclopedia of 20th Century Architecture - Vol. 2
Book by R. Stephen Stennott; Fitzroy Dearborn, 2004
Subjects: Architecture, Modern--20th Century--Encyclopedias
Gateway Arch of St. Louis, designed by Eero Saarinen Jeffereson National Expansion Memorial and National...completed the following day. RUMIKO HANDA See also Saarinen, Eero (Finland); Saarinen, Eliel (Finland) Further Reading Arteaga...
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"A Catalyst for Downtown": Detroit's Renaissance Center
Journal article by Francis Desiderio; Michigan Historical Review, Vol. 35, 2009
Subjects: Central business districts--Buildings and facilities, Central business districts--History, Detroit Renaissance Center--Design and construction, Detroit Renaissance Center--History
...until after World War I, when Eliel Saarinen drafted plans for such a center. Voters...1947 the city again turned to Eliel Saarinen to design a civic center on the riverfront. Saarinen and his son Eero designed a plaza at the rivers edge...
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A Closer Look at a Business Renaissance Executive: an Interview with Craig Hodgetts
Journal article; Business Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 2, 2007
Subjects: Architectural services, Creativity, Executives, Hodgetts, Craig, Personal profiles, Success, United States
...Diego, Southern California Institute of Architecture, The Ohio State University and at Yale University as visiting Eero Saarinen professor. In 1969, Mr. Hodgetts was a Founding Dean of the California Institute of the Arts. Mr. Hodgetts many...
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Streets and Stages: Urban Renewal and the Arts after World War II
Journal article by Julia L. Foulkes; Journal of Social History, Vol. 44, 2010
Subjects: Arts and society, Arts centers--Social aspects, Brooklyn, New York, New York--Social aspects, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Suburbs--Social aspects, Urban renewal--Social aspects
...copy of the picture is in the appendix of Wesley R. Janz, Building Nations by Designing Buildings: Corporatism, Eero Saarinen, and the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts (Madison, 1995). (11.) John Molleson, "Island for Pedestrians...
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Free Time: an Introduction
Journal article by Joe Scanlan; Art Journal, Vol. 70, 2011
Subjects: Art, Artists, Leisure
...History of American Art at WeUesiey College, opened the series by speaking about the sinuous postwar interiors of Eero Saarinen, drawing subtle distinctions between a classic work environment, his General Motors Technical Center in Warren...
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Synagogue Art of the 1950s
Journal article by Janay Jadine Wong; Art Journal, Vol. 53, 1994
Subjects: Art, Synagogues, Visual artists
...fourteen paintings for a chapel in Houston; Roszak accepted a sculptural commission to decorate a chapel designed by Eero Saarinen at M.I.T.; and Newman not only designed a model for a synagogue, but also completed a series of paintings titled...
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Documents Reveal Eero Saarinen's Second World War Secrets
Magazine article by Mina Marefat; The Architectural Review, Vol. 228, November 2010
Subjects: Airport terminals--Innovations, Architectural firms--Exhibitions, Architectural firms--Innovations, Architectural practice--Exhibitions, Architectural practice--Innovations, Architectural services--Exhibitions, Architectural services--Innovations, Saarinen, Eero--Management, Saarinen, Eero--Services
...in Washington, DC--entitled Eero Saarinen: A Reputation for Innovation...designer Florence Knoll, with whom Eero Saarinen established lifelong friendships...headquarters in New York City. By 1960 Eero Saarinen was one of Americas busiest architects...
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Saarinen Reappraised
Magazine article by Brian Carter; The Architectural Review, Vol. 218, December 2005
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Eero Saarinen (Book)--Book reviews
...Reappraised. by Brian Carter EERO SAARINEN By Jayne Merkel. London Phaidon...sterling45 A good book on the work of Eero Saarinen is overdue, and while the appetite...hard to detect. The claim that Eero Saarinen was unduly influenced by Mies...
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Between Earth and Sky
Magazine article by Brian Carter; Scandinavian Review, Vol. 90, Autumn 2002
Subjects: Architects, Architecture, Personal profiles, Saarinen, Eero
...Carter IT IS EXACTLY 40 YEARS SINCE EERO SAARINEN was awarded the Gold Medal-the...the ALA, was able only to quote Eero Saarinen. "I think of architecture...was forged through practice. Eero Saarinen was born in Kirkkonummi, Finland...
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The Architects Bringing Transparency Back to the New US Embassy
Magazine article by Will Hunter; The Architectural Review, Vol. 228, June 2010
Subjects: Architectural design--Evaluation, Saarinen, Eero--Interviews, Saarinen, Eero--Works
...Grosvenor Square, designed by Eero Saarinen--whose career emerges as intricately...and in that way move up. JT Like Saarinen, who wasnt a fame-seeker either...AR Did cither of you ever meet Saarinen? JT No, he died when we were...
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Out of the Shadows
Magazine article by Michael Webb; The Architectural Review, Vol. 221, April 2007
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Eero Saarinen: Shaping the Future (Book)--Book reviews
Out of the Shadows. by Michael Webb EERO SAARINEN: SHAPING THE FUTURE Edited by Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen...Albrecht. New Haven: Yale University Press. 2006. $65 Eero Saarinen (1910-61) was arguably the greatest and most underrated...
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Strong Finnish; Eero Saarinen Finally Gets His Due at the National Building Museum
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, May 3, 2008
Subjects: Airport terminals, Architects, Museums, National Building Museum
Strong Finnish; Eero Saarinen Finally Gets His Due at the National...swooping roof and mobile lounges. Eero Saarinen designed not only this pioneering...Space Museum that occupies the site. Eero Saarinen got his big break in 1948, when...
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Eero Wanted Rid of 'Slum of Legs'
Newspaper article; Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales), November 13, 2004
Subjects: Saarinen, Eero
...combination was designed be Finish-American architect, Eero Saarinen (1910-1961). Son of respected architect, Eliel Saarinen...tradition to design simple, unornamented buildings - and Eero began to build a reputation for himself as an architect...
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Plastic Makes Perfect; Design Pendulum Swings Back to '60S
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, March 19, 2005
Subjects: Saarinen, Eero
...responsible for the chair is a Finn named Eero Aarnio. Mr. Aarnio, who at 72...designed by Finnish-American designer Eero Saarinen a decade earlier. The Polaris Chair...Pop Fantasies: Furniture Design by Eero Aarnio" WHERE: Embassy of Finland...
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And Eero Was His Name
Newspaper article; Daily Examiner (Grafton, Australia), April 24, 2010
...some stage without knowing it. Eero Saarinen is one of those designers and...over the other submissions. Eero was the son of Eliel Saarinen, an accomplished architect and early on in his life, Eero was a fixture in his dads studio...
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20 Finn-Tastic Things to Do in Helsinki
Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), April 10, 2005
...Architecturally, it borrows from every tradition and it dazzlingly showcases its own - from the early works of Eliel Saarinen (whose son, Eero, went on to design the sublime TWA terminal at JFK Airport in new York) to the classical works of Alvar Aalto...
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Saarinen, Eero
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
SAARINEN, EERO a ro sa rinen, 1910 61, Finnish...American citizen in 1940; son of Eliel Saarinen . Saarinens reputation was established...polygonal college buildings at Yale. See Eero Saarinen On His Work, ed. by A. Saarinen...
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Saarinen, Eliel
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
SAARINEN, ELIEL el eel sa rinen, 1873 1950, Finnish-American architect and...Stockbridge, Mass. His later designs were made in collaboration with his son, Eero Saarinen . ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University...
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Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Buffalo, NY in 1935. Since 1940 its home has been the 2,839-seat Kleinhans Music Hall, designed by Eliel Saarinen and Eero Saarinen . Its first conductor was Lajos Shuk, whose tenure lasted from 1935 to 1937. Later music directors have included...
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Mielziner, Jo
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...to another. During World War II, he was a camouflage specialist with the U.S. Air Force. Mielziner was, with Eero Saarinen , codesigner of the Vivian Beaumont Theater in New York Citys Lincoln Center. See his memoirs, Designing for the...
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Calatrava, Santiago
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...architectural and engineering practice in Zurich in 1981 and later expanded to Valencia and Paris. Influenced by the work of Eero Saarinen , Calatrava has become known for the arching sculptural forms of his large public buildings. These structures railway...
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