SAARINEN, ELIEL

ĕlˈēĕl, 1873–1950, Finnish-American architect and city planner, resident of the United States after 1923. In Finland, Saarinen's most celebrated building was the railway station in Helsinki. He took second prize in the Chicago Tribune Tower competition in 1922. At the Cranbrook Foundation in Bloomfield Hills, Mich., he designed several buildings and also headed the Academy of Art. His other major works include the Crow Island Elementary School, Winnetka, Ill. (1939); two churches in Columbus, Ind. (1941–42), and Minneapolis, Minn. (1949), and the music shed for the Berkshire Festival at Tanglewood, Mass. His later designs were made in collaboration with his son, Eero Saarinen.

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books on: Saarinen Eliel  - 92 results

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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
...This competition marked Eero Saarinens professional coming of age. In...to Europe, he joined his father, Eliel, in the firm and the faculty at...also Saarinen, Eero (Finland); Saarinen, Eliel (Finland) Further Reading...
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Masters of Modern Architecture
Book by John Peter; G. Braziller, 1958
Subjects: Architects, Architecture, Modern--20th Century
...ELIEL AND EERO SAARINEN. Tabernacle Church of Christ...ELIEL AND EERO SAARINEN WITH PERKINS, WHEELER AND WILL...Richard Neutra, Marcel Breuer, Eliel Saarinen and Eric Mendelsohn--found...
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Architecture Today and Tomorrow
Book by Cranston Jones; McGraw-Hill, 1961
Subjects: Architecture, Modern--20th Cent
...Rudolph 17.10 Courtesy of Eero Saarinen 13.4/13.7/ 13.9/13.19-20/13.24...120 13: Eero Saarinen: Unity within Diversity 135...twentieth century," the architect Eero Saarinen has stated. 32 And perhaps it is...
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Planning and Urban Growth in the Nordic Countries
Book by Thomas Hall; E & FN Spon, 1991
Subjects: City Planning--Scandinavia--History, Urbanization--Scandinavia--History
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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
...the Bauhaus building in Dessau, 1926 Bauhaus Archiv, Berlin 162 37. Eliel Saarinen, dining-room, Saarinen House, Cranbrook Academy 1928-30 Cranbrook Academy of Art 164 38...
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Edward Bellamy's Ambivalence: Can Utopia Be Urban
Journal article by John R. Mullin; Utopian Studies, Vol. 11, 2000
Subjects: Bellamy, Edward--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Cities and towns--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Utopias in literature--Analysis
...Chicopee. Charleston: Arcadia, 1998. Rhodes, Harold V. Utopia in American Thought. Tucson: U of Arizona P, 1967. Saarinen, Eliel. The City. Cambridge: MIT P, 1943. Schlesinger, Arthur. The Rise of the City, 1878-1898. New York: Macmillan, 1933...
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Humanizing Modernism: the Crafts, 'Functioning Decoration' and the Eameses
Journal article by Pat Kirkham; Journal of Design History, Vol. 11, 1998
Subjects: Design--History
...Charles to the attention of Eliel Saarinen, the Finnish architect...made in the studio of Loja Saarinen, wife of Eliel, who also designed the drapes...been influenced by Eero Saarinen, the child prodigy son of Eliel and Loja who had been trained...
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Roger Connah. Finland: Modern Architectures in History
Journal article by William C. Miller; Scandinavian Studies, Vol. 78, 2006
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Finland: Modern Architectures in History (Book)--Book reviews
...view of modern Finnish architectural history. Connah, while assessing the work of the more preeminent architects--Eliel Saarinen, Alvar Aalto, and Reima Pietila, among others--articulates the important contributions of less familiar figures in...
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The Iconography of the American City: Or, a Gothic Tale of Modern Times
Journal article by Peter W. Williams; Church History, Vol. 68, 1999
Subjects: Church History
...Columbus, Indiana, designed by Finnish architect Eliel Saarinen and financed, as would be the entirety of this...Nearby lies North Christian Church designed by Saarinens son Eliel, an even more dramatic expression of a modernist...
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A Complex Legacy
Journal article by Amy Villarejo; Afterimage, Vol. 27, 1999
Subjects: Art, Modern--20th century, Conceptual art--Exhibitions, Eames, Charles--Exhibitions, Eames, Ray--Exhibitions
...who transformed decades of American everyday life through design and media. With their colleagues such as Eero and Eliel Saarinen, they seized the tools of mass production in an unabashed lunge for a utopia of honest materials, democratic spaces...
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magazine articles on: Saarinen Eliel  - 12 results

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Cranbrook Continuum
Magazine article by Annette Lecuyer; The Architectural Review, Vol. 202, November 1997
Subjects: Architecture, Industrial--Design and construction, Bridge construction--Design and construction, City planning--Design and construction, Elementary schools--Equipment and supplies
...partnership between Booth and Eliel Saarinen, who came to the United States...estate was at a low ebb. Because Eliel Saarinens work had assumed something of...weaving - through the interests of Eliel Saarinen and his wife, Loja, who was a...
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Cranbrook Complexities
Magazine article by Annette Lecuyer; The Architectural Review, Vol. 209, May 2001
Subjects: Artist colonies--United States, Cranbrook, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan--Design and construction, Education parks--Design and construction
...Cranbrook was an educational and architectural experiment. Eliel Saarinen worked with Booth over a period of some 25 years both...vision of architecture and landscape developed by Eliel Saarinen. Well crafted and finely tuned to the special ethos...
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Fine Finnish
Magazine article by Layla Dawson; The Architectural Review, Vol. 207, February 2000
Subjects: Architectural museums--Exhibitions, Finland--Influence
...of this early founding period (1908-14). Eliel Saarinen was the first Finnish architect who dreamt...is at the same time modern. Aalto and Eliel Saarinen are Finlands most famous architects. Saarinen emigrated to the US after coming second...
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Architecture on the Podium at RIBA
Magazine article by Rob Gregory; The Architectural Review, Vol. 219, May 2006
Subjects: Architects--Achievements and awards, Architectural firms--Achievements and awards, Architectural practice--Achievements and awards, Architectural services--Achievements and awards, RIBA Enterprises--Achievements and awards
...names have also received the honour: Edwin Lutyens in 1921, Giles Gilbert Scott in 1925, Frank Lloyd Wright in 1942, Eliel Saarinen in 1950, Le Corbusier in 1953, and Mies van der Rohe in 1959. Groups and non-architects have also won the award, with...
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The Industrial-Strength Humanist: J. Irwin Miller Knew How to Get Things Built
Magazine article by Robert Campbell; American Scholar, Vol. 74, Winter 2005
Subjects: Industrialists--Biography, Miller, J. Irwin
...a new home for itself in Columbus. Finnish architect Eliel Saarinen, the father of Eero and head of the Cranbrook School...self-aggrandizement. Miller the classicist persuaded Saarinen to reconsider by telling him that First Christian believed...
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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
...architecture developed at an early age. His father, Eliel Saarinen, was a famous architect in Finland who moved his family...chosen over 171 entries, including his fathers. After Eliel Saarinens death in 1950, the son set up his own office in Bloomfield...
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Eero Wanted Rid of 'Slum of Legs'
Newspaper article; Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales), November 13, 2004
Subjects: Saarinen, Eero
...table combination was designed be Finish-American architect, Eero Saarinen (1910-1961). Son of respected architect, Eliel Saarinen, he studied architecture at Yale University and taught at the Cranbrook Academy of Art before joining his fathers...
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Filipino Designers Go for the G-Mark
Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, June 6, 2004
...next larger context a chair in a room, a room in a house, a house in an environment, an environment in a city plan, Eliel Saarinen Many Filipino designers are just more than pleased to take on this challenge, which is why they are repeatedly recognized...
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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...
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Modern Century of Silver; Striking Work at Renwick
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, September 17, 2005
Subjects: Exhibitions
...deco patterns in the spirit of the jazz age. Cheaper silverplate of the period also assumed a modern flair. Architect Eliel Saarinen and jewelry designer Paul Lobel turned their respective tea urn and coffee service for the Wilcox Silver Plate Co...


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encyclopedia articles on: Saarinen Eliel  - 10 results

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Saarinen, Eliel
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
SAARINEN, ELIEL el eel sa rinen, 1873 1950, Finnish-American...United States after 1923. In Finland, Saarinens most celebrated building was the railway...in collaboration with his son, Eero Saarinen . ____________________ Copyright 2009...
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Saarinen, Eero
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...1934), became an American citizen in 1940; son of Eliel Saarinen . Saarinens reputation was established with his design of the...the David S. Ingalls Hockey Rink at Yale (1958). Saarinen created soaring intersecting concrete vaults for...
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Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...in 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...
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Eames, Charles
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...American designer, b. St. Louis, Mo. He opened his own architectural practice in 1930 and in the late 30s studied with Eliel Saarinen at the Cranbrook Academy, Bloomfield Hills, Mich., later teaching there, and becoming head of the design department...
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Joensuu
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...mills, and is an important lake port. It was chartered in 1848 as a copper town. The modern city hall was designed by Eliel Saarinen . A university was established there in 1969. ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used...
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