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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.
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.
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
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.
- 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.
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). Eero shows his winning soap sculpture in a 1926 Ivory Soap contest. M
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Aug 20, 2017 · Son of pioneering Finnish architect Eliel Saarinen, Eero Saarinen (August 20, 1910 – September 1, 1961) was not only born on the same day, but carried his father's later rational Art Deco...
