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In 1939, Saarinen married the sculptor Lilian Swann. They had two children, Eric and Susan Saarinen. Their marriage ended in divorce in 1954. That same year, Saarinen married Aline Bernstein Louchheim, an art critic at The New York Times.
Jan 23, 2024 · Eero Saarinen, a Finnish-American architect and industrial designer, is known for mid-20th-century buildings and furniture designs. Born in Finland in 1910, Saarinen immigrated to the U.S. in 1923. His early design exposure began through his father, Eliel Saarinen, a noted architect.
- 1910
- Eero Saarinen
- Kirkkonummi, Finland
- 1923
- Finnish-American
- August 20, 1910
- Kirkkonummi, Grand Duchy of Finland, Russian Empire
- September 1, 1961
- General Motors Technical Center, Warren, Michigan, USA. Along with structures such as the Lever House and Seagram Building in New York, the General Motors Technical Center is one of the projects that best exemplifies the new identity of American corporate modernism in the 1950s.
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology Chapel, Cambridge, USA. The MIT Chapel is part of a pair of structures (the other being the Kresge Auditorium) clustered together on the university's campus that Saarinen designed along with all of the landscaping.
- J. Irwin Miller House, Columbus, Indiana, USA. Saarinen rarely designed residences during his mature career, yet the Miller House, built for a corporate scion in the architecturally prominent small town of Columbus, is the best example of these.
- Ingalls Ice Rink, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut. Saarinen completed several buildings for Yale, his alma mater, among which the Ingalls Ice Rink was the first.
Aug 15, 2023 · The life and career of Finnish-American architect and industrial designer Eero Saarinen set the stage for some of the world’s most iconic landmarks – both in the public realm and within our very own lounge rooms and workplaces. On the 75th anniversary of his Womb Chair we take a look back over Saarinen’s career.
Saarinen married Lillian Swann, a sculptor, in 1939, and they had two children, Eric and Susan. This marriage ended in divorce in 1953, and Saarinen was remarried the following year to Aline Bernstein Loucheim, an art critic. A son, Eames, was born later that year.
Oct 18, 2022 · It only took Aline months to persuade Eero to divorce his wife and write herself into the roles she had been coveting: wife and head of Information Services at Saarinen’s office. Hagberg’s meticulous historical investigation works on several levels.
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Jan 30, 2023 · The ‘match’ is Aline Louchheim Saarinen, Eero’s second wife, who ran the public-facing side of his office for the last years of his life. This relationship was a remarkable intermin gling of the personal and the professional, and Hagberg’s aim is to pick out Louchheim’s influ ence on the perception of Saarinen’s great final works ...
