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Saarinen Family Designs is a project started by members of the Saarinen family for the purposes of contributing to and enhancing the world we live in through education, preservation, and promotion of great design.
Oct 11, 2023 · When in 1948 Eero Saarinen won the competition to design what became the Gateway Arch in Saint Louis, his fame was assured. But his story begins much earlier with his collaborations with his father, Eilel, a Finnish-born architect and city planner and his mother Loja, a textile artist and sculptor.
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- Saarinen’s Context and Influence
When Eero Saarinen died suddenly of a brain tumor on September 1, 1961, he had already become, at the age of only fifty-one, one of the most successful architects in the United States. The darling of corporate America, Saarinen had risen to great heights over the course of his short career (his father Eliel, with whom he had collaborated since the ...
Saarinen’s first foray into this uncharted architectural territory, the General Motors Technical Center in Warren, Michigan, was a dazzling demonstration of what a glamorous American modernism could be. 16The program called for the creation of a campus-like complex in which new ideas could be developed and tested, with new office suites, design stu...
In the design of Saarinen’s TWA terminal at Idlewild Airport (now John F. Kennedy International Airport) in New York, which opened in May 1962, eight months after his death, the architect once again explored new technologies and building materials with the goal of creating expressive artistic forms and spaces. 25 Here, after almost ten years of suc...
In February 1959 the TWA Building was featured in a small but influential exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art entitled “Four New Buildings: Architecture and Imagery”; though still on the boards, the project was singled out for its innovative approach and placed alongside Utzon’s designs for the new Sydney Opera House, Wallace K. Harrison’s First...
Eliel Saarinen’s five-decade legacy is examined by showing his home designs in Finland and the US, and the later residences designed in collaboration with his son. The book also highlights several projects crafted by Eero after his father’s death.
- Kresge Auditorium. The Kresge Auditorium and the Kresge Oval are two Saarinen projects on the MIT campus. Saarinen was given a complicated task when granted the project: create an architectural identity that would unite everyone on MIT’s campus.
- MIT Chapel. The exterior of the MIT Chapel is relatively modest in size and façade compared to its magical interior. Like the other projects on this list that Saarinen designed for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he also designed the landscaping around it.
- Dulles International Airport. The main terminal of the Dulles International Airport is a great example of the dramatic forms that define much of Saarinen’s work.
- TWA Flight Center. The TWA Flight Center is one of Saarinen’s most iconic works. It is the second design in an airport on this list and is also a perfect example of his neo-futuristic architecture.
His most widely recognized design is the iconic Gateway Arch in St. Louis, MO, the tallest man-made national monument in the United States. An intensely serious architect, Eero flawlessly designed buildings to make expressive statements. He was creative, open-minded, and original in his designs.
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Born in Finland to famed architect Eliel Saarinen and textile designer Loja Saarinen, Eero immigrated with his family to the United States in 1923. Settling in Michigan, Eliel co-founded the Cranbrook Academy of Art and designed most of the buildings for the campus – now a National Historic Landmark – while the young Eero worked alongside ...
