Eero Saarinen

From Archiplanet

	Eero Saarinen
Born	1910; Kirkkonummi, Finland
Died	1961; Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
Notes
At Great Buildings	http://www.GreatBuildings.com/architects/Eero_Saarinen.html

1 Works
2 Discussion
3 References
4 External Links

[edit] Works

Berkshire Music Shed, at Tanglewood, Massachusetts, 1940. GreatBuildings page
Dulles Airport, at Chantilly, Virginia, 1958 to 1962. * 3D Model * GreatBuildings page
Gateway Arch, at St. Louis, Missouri, 1947 competition, construction 1961 to 1966. GreatBuildings page
General Motors Technical Center, at Warren, Michigan, 1946 to 1955. GreatBuildings page
Miller House I, Toronto, Ontario, 1950.
Miller House II, Columbus, Indiana, 1953.
United States Chancellery, London, England, United Kingdom, 1955 to 1960.
IBM Research Building, at Yorktown, New York, 1957 to 1961. GreatBuildings page
John Deere and Company, at Moline, Illinois, 1963. GreatBuildings page
Kresge Auditorium, at Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1950 to 1955. GreatBuildings page
Kresge Chapel, at Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1955. GreatBuildings page
North Christian Church, at Columbus, Indiana, 1959 to 1963. GreatBuildings page
TWA at New York, at New York, New York, 1956 to 1962. GreatBuildings page
Yale Hockey Rink, at New Haven, Connecticut, 1956 to 1958. GreatBuildings page
Bell Labs, at Holmdel, New Jersey, 1957 to 1962.
Emma Harman Noyes House, Poughkeepsie, New York, 1958.

[edit] Discussion

(b. Kirkkonummi, Finland 1910; d. Ann Arbor, Michigan 1961)

Eero Saarinen was born in Kirkkonummi, Finland in 1910. He studied in father's practice. Eero initially pursued sculpture as his art of choice. After a year in art school, he decided to become an architect instead. Much of his work shows a relation to sculpture.

Saarinen developed a remarkable range which depended on color, form and materials. Saarinen showed a marked dependence on innovative structures and sculptural forms, but not at the cost of pragmatic considerations. He easily moved back and forth between the International Style and Expressionism, utilizing a vocabulary of curves and cantilevered forms.

Eero Saarinen died in Ann Arbor, Michigan in 1961.

[edit] References

"From Maybeck to Megachurches", by Douglas R. Hoffman, ArchitectureWeek No. 61, 2001.0808, p1.
Dennis Sharp. The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Architects and Architecture. New York: Quatro Publishing, 1991. ISBN 0-8230-2539-X. NA40.I45. p132-133
Muriel Emmanuel. Contemporary Architects. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1980. ISBN 0-312-16635-4. NA680.C625 1980.</font>