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The Eero Saarinen Collection is a rich source of documentation about this noted American architect, whose short, prolific career coincided with one of the most economically and culturally expansive decades in American history. Beginning with Saarinen's earliest work at the firm of his father, Eliel Saarinen, and ending with documentation of projects completed after his death, this collection contains information about all of Saarinen's projects, major and minor, built and unbuilt.

The collection consists primarily of drawings and photographs from each of the projects, with scattered amounts of correspondence, product samples, publicity materials, specifications, clippings from period publications, reference materials, and audio-visual materials pertaining to the projects. The collection also contains material pertaining to Saarinen's childhood and personal life, his professional activities, and the administrative and publicity records of his firm, Eero Saarinen and Associates. A small amount of material on the life and work of Eliel Saarinen is also available in this collection.

Little correspondence between Saarinen and his clients or contractors exists in this collection; it was apparently destroyed before the collection was donated to Yale. The two projects in the collection that do have significant amounts of correspondence associated with them are the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial in St. Louis, Missouri and the North Christian Church in Columbus, Indiana. Not all projects in the collection are documented at the same level: for example, the David S. Ingalls Rink at Yale University is documented by only three original drawings, whereas the Trans World Air Lines Terminal [Trans World Flight Center] at John F. Kennedy Airport fills more than 13 tubes of drawings.

Material from all accessions in the Saarinen collection has been mer

• EERO SAARINEN - prodigious Finnish American architect and industrial designer known for his

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The document provides biographies of three famous architects - Eero Saarinen, Oscar Niemeyer, and Lucio Costa - and highlights some of their major projects. Eero Saarinen was a Finnish-American known for his neo-futuristic style, including designing the main terminals at Dulles International Airport and JFK Airport. Oscar Niemeyer was a influential Brazilian architect known for his civic buildings in Brasilia, including the Parliament Buildings, and his collaboration on the UN headquarters. Lucio Costa had a long professional relationship with Niemeyer, collaborating on projects like Brasilia, where Costa was the master planner and Niemeyer a key designer. Some of their projects highlighted include

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The document provides biographies of three famous architects - Eero Saarinen, Oscar Niemeyer, and Lucio Costa - and highlights some of their major projects. Eero Saarinen was a Finnish-American known for his neo-futuristic style, including designing the main terminals at Dulles International Airport and JFK Airport. Oscar Niemeyer was a influential Brazilian architect known for his civic buildings in Brasilia, including the Parliament Buildings, and his collaboration on the UN headquarters. Lucio Costa had a long professional relationship with Niemeyer, collaborating on projects like Brasilia, where Costa was the master planner and Niemeyer a key designer. Some of their projects highlighted include

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Eero Saarinen - Architect

BIOGRAPHY

• Eero Saarinen was a Finnish-American architect and industrial


designer born in the year 1910.

• His father Eliel Saarinen was a noted and respected


architect.

• And mother was Loja Saarinen, a gifted sculptor, weaver,


photographer, and architectural model maker.

• He is famous for shaping his neofuturistic style according to the


demands of the project.

• His designs involved simple, sweeping, arching structural curves or


machine-like rationalism.

• He took courses in sculpture and furniture design at the Cranbrook


Academy of Art.

• He died of a brain tumour in 1961 at the age of 51.


PHILOSOPHY

• He learnt at an early age that each object should be designed in its "next largest context - a chair in a room, a room in a house, a
house in an environment, environment in a city plan.“

• His opinion was that, "...all parts of an architectural composition must be parts of the same form-world.“

• He was an architect who refused to be restrained by any preconceived ideas.


BIOGRAPHY
Name City State/Country Designed Completed Other Information

Cranbrook School for Boys Bloomfield Hills Michigan 1925 1931 With Eliel Saarinen
furnishings
Saarinen House furnishings Bloomfield Hills Michigan 1928 1930

Kingswood School for Girls Bloomfield Hills Michigan 1929 1931


furnishings

Hvitträsk Studio and Home Kirkkonummi Finland 1929 1937 Remodel

Swedish Theatre Helsinki Finland 1935 1936 Remodel. With Eliel Saarinen

Fenton Community Center Fenton Michigan 1937 1938 With Eliel Saarinen

J. F. Spencer House Huntington Woods Michigan 1937 1938 First building designed independently

Charles and Ingrid Koebel House Grosse Pointe Farms Michigan 1937 1940 With Eliel Saarinen and J. Robert F. Swanson

Kleinhans Music Hall Buffalo New York 1938 1940 With Eliel Saarinen. Designated a National Historic Landmark in 1989

Crow Island School Winnetka Illinois 1938 1942 With Eliel Saarinen and Perkins &

  • Between 1932-34, Eero studied
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    • Eero Sarinen

  • 1. Born August 20, 1910 Kirkkonummi, Finland, Russian Empire Died September 1, 1961 (aged 51) Ann Arbor, Michigan, US Nationality Finnish American Awards AIA Gold Medal (1962) Design Gateway Arch Washington Dulles International Airport TWA Flight Center Tulip chair Eero Saarinen, the son of influential Finnish architect Eliel Saarinen and his second wife, Louise, was born on his father's 37th birthday, August 20, 1910. They emigrated to the United States of America in 1923, when Eero was thirteen. He grew up in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, where his father was a teacher at the Cranbrook Academy of Art and he took courses in sculpture and furniture design there. Beginning in September 1929, he studied sculpture at the Academia de la Grande Chaumière in Paris, France. He then went on to study at the Yale School of Architecture, completing his studies in 1934. Subsequently, he toured Europe and North Africa for a year and returned for a year to his native Finland, after which he returned to Cranbrook to work for his father and teach at the academy. He became a naturalized citizen of the United States in 1940. Saarinen was recruited by Donal McLaughlin, an architectural school friend from his Yale days, to join the military service in the Office of Strategic Services (OSS). Saarinen was assigned to draw illustrations for bomb disassembly manuals and to provide designs for the Situation Room in the White House.Saarinen worked full-time for the OSS until 1944. After his father's death in 1950, Saarinen founded his own architect's office, "Eero Saarinen and Associates”. INTRODUCTION : EERO SARINEN’S WORK

  • 2. EERO SARINEN’S WORK -GAUSIYA AAIN MUNDEWADI T.Y.B.ARCH. 3908018

  • 3. TWA Flight Center The TWA Flight Center or Trans World Flight Center, opened in 1962 as a standalone terminal at New York City's John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK) for Trans World Airlines. Though portions of the original complex, designed by Eer