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Eero
Saarinen: Finnish-American architect of the 20th
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Always
design a thing by considering it in its next larger context - a
chair in a room, a room in a house, a house in an environment, an
environment in a city plan. -- Eero Saarinen
Eero
Saarinen (August 20, 1910, in Kirkkonummi, Finland –
September 1, 1961, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States) was a
Finnish-American architect and product designer of the 20th
century famous for his simple, sweeping, arching structural
curves.
The
son of Eliel Saarinen, he studied with his father at Cranbrook
Academy of Art in Michigan, where he had a close relationship
with Charles and Ray Eames, and became good friends with Florence
(Schust) Knoll. He received a B.Arch. from Yale University in
1934, and in 1940, he became a naturalized citizen.
Saarinen
came to attention for his 1948 competition-winning design for the
Jefferson National Expansion Memorial, not completed until the
1960s. (The competition award was mistakenly sent to his father.)
For the General Motors Technical Center, the Noyes dormitory at
Vassar, the famous 'expressionist' concrete shell of the TWA
Terminal, and other important commissions, he designed all the
interiors and furniture in a curving, theatrical, futuristic
style. He served on the jury for the Sydney Opera House
commission and was crucial in the selection of the
internationally-known design by Jørn Utzon.
Saarinen's
Gateway Arch frames The Old Courthouse, which sits at the heart
of the city of Saint Louis, near the river's edge.
In
1954 he married Aline Bernstein, an art critic at The New York
Times, with whom he had a son, Eames, named for his collaborator
Charles Eames. (Aline Saarinen was later head of the Paris news
bureau of NBC-TV.) This was his 2nd marriage; he was divorced
from his first wife.
Saarinen
died of a brain tumor at the age of 51. The firm of
Roche-Dinkeloo, with partners Kevin Roche and John Dinkeloo,
completed some of Saarinen's unfinished projects from their new
offices in New Haven under the auspices of Eero Saarinen and
Associates. Neglected and sometimes mocked during his lifetime by
the architectural establishment, he is now considered one of the
masters of American 20th Century architecture. There has been a
veritable surge of interest in Saarinen's work in recent years,
including a major exhibition and several books. This is partly
due to the Roche and Dinkeloo office having donated their
Saarinen archives to Yale University, but also because Saarinen's
ouvre can be said to fit in with present-day concerns: he was an
architect criticised in his own time - most vociferously by
critic Vincent Scully - for having no identifiable style (Miesian
rationalism for the several company headquarters; organic or
abstract expressionism for several individual structures such as
the TWA terminal; but also classicising eclecticism, for instance
in the USA embassy in London): one explanation for this is that
Saarinen adapted his modernist vision to each individual client
and project, which were never exactly the same.
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