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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.
Aug 20, 2018 · This, however, is the story of Eliel and Eero Saarinen, the Finnish-American architects whose combined portfolio tells of the development of modernist architectural thought in the United States.
- Tom Dobbins
- 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.
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.
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.
- Will Wiles
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.
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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.
