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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.
- 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 1, 2020 · Aline, as I mentioned a few days ago in my review of a new book about the GM Technical Center, was swept away by Eero when she met him in 1953, eventually marrying the then-married architect and serving as the head of PR in his office just outside Detroit.
Quick Facts. Died At Age: 51. Family: Spouse/Ex-: Aline B. Saarinen, Lilian Swann Saarinen. father: Eliel Saarinen. mother: Louise Gesellius. children: Eames Saarinen, Eric Saarinen, Susan Saarinen. Born Country: Finland. Finnish Men Male Architects. Died on: September 1, 1961. place of death: Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States.
Louchheim and Saarinen met in 1953 when Louchheim was already divorced, but Saarinen was still married. Both had children. Letters digitized by the Smithsonian Archives of American Art document with surprising frankness their romantic meetings and plans to be together.
Jun 11, 2018 · Personal. Born August 20, 1910, in Kirkkonummi, Finland; immigrated to the United States, naturalized citizen, 1940; died of a brain tumor, September 1, 1961, in Ann Arbor, MI; son of Eliel (an architect) and Loja (a sculptor and weaver) Saarinen; married Lily Swann (a sculptor), 1939 (divorced, 1953); married Aline Bernstein Louchheim (an art ...
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A family gathering at Cranbrook in August 1958. Front row, left to right: Susan Saarinen, Eero, Loja Saarinen (Eliel's widow), Aline Louchheim Saarinen (Eero's second wife) and Eames Saarinen (Eero's and Aline's son). Back row, left to right: Eric Saarinen, Donald and Harry Allen Louchheim (Aline's sons).
