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EERO (AIR-oh)

Eero Saarinen: Finnish-American architect of the 20th century

Common clues: Architect Saarinen; First name in architecture; Eliel's son; Gateway Arch designer Saarinen; Saarinen of Finland; TWA Terminal designer Saarinen

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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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EERO (302) 175 We- >1 06 Architect Saarinen

25 Th >1 08 First name in architecture

13 Tu >1 03 Eliel's son

10 Th- >1 92 Saarinen

8 We >1 99 Eliel Saarinen's son

00 Younger Saarinen

7 Th- >1 00 A Saarinen

6 Fr+ >1 08 First name in design YVES

6 We- >1 95 Mr. Saarinen

5 Th- >1 05 Gateway Arch designer Saarinen

3 Th LAT 03 Eliel's designing son

3 We- >1 06 Gateway Arch architect Saarinen

2 Fr >1 08 Chair designer Aarnio

09 Designer Saarinen

2 Fr NYT 96 Finnish skiing gold medalist Maentyranta

2 We- >1 04 Saarinen of Finland

2 Tu- >1 07 Saarinen who designed the Gateway Arch

2 Th >1 03 Son of Eliel

2 Th WSJ 05 TWA Terminal designer Saarinen

2 We- >1 05 Tulip chair designer Saarinen

1 Th NYS 04 1964 cross-country skiing gold medalist Mäntyranta

1 Th NYT 90 A first name in architecture

20 Arch-itect?

1 Th Rea 03 Architect's first name

1 Fr NYT 88 Architecture's Saarinen