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.

Biography

A boy of Eliel Saarinen, he studied using his father at Cranbrook Academy of Art in Michigan, where he got the close relationship by having Charles & Ray Eames. He received the B.Arch. from either Yale University around 1934, and in 1940, he became a naturalized citizen.

Saarinen come to attention for his 1948 competition-winning project for a Jefferson National Expansion Memorial, non completed until the Sixties. (A competition award was erroneously sent to his father.) For a General Motors Technical indicator Center, a Noyes dormitory at Vassar the notable 'expressionistic' concrete husk of the TWthe Terminal, & more crucial commissions, he designed all the interiors & article of furniture inside a curved, theatrical, futurist style. He served on the jury for the Sydney Opera House commission and is thought to stand been influential in the choice of the internationally-known project by Jørn Utzon.

Saarinen died of a brain tumour at the age of 51. A house of Roche-Dinkeloo, with partners Kevin Roche & John Dinkeloo, completed a bit of of Saarinen's bare projects. Neglected & periodically mocked when you took his life per architectural establishment, he is currently considered one of a masters of Western 20th Century architecture.

Works

Concordia Senior College campus, now Concordia Theological Seminary, Fort Wayne, Indiana Gateway Arch, St. Louis, Missouri TWA Terminal at JFK International Airport Washington Dulles International Airport Kresge Auditorium and MIT Chapel at MIT Bell Labs in Holmdel, New Jersey Case Study House #9, the John Entenza House (collaboration with Charles Eames)

CBS Building (Black Rock) New York Vivian Beaumont Theater in Lincoln Center, New York General Motors Technical Center, Warren, Michigan Usa Embassies within Oslo and London North Christian Church in Columbus, Indiana School of law & Woodward Court Dormitory at University of Chicago Kleinhans Music Hall, Buffalo, New York; designed together by owning his father Eliel Saarinen Morse College & Ezra Stiles College at Yale University Ingalls Rink at Yale University, affectionately called "The Whale." Noyes Home dormitory at Vassar College. Its lounge is dear known as a Jetsons lounge because of its curved architecture. Hill College Home at a University of Pennsylvania. Originally the women's dormitory, the building was processed by owning a "drawbridge" to keep men retired. IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York IBM Rochester, a plant around Rochester, Minnesota John Deere World Headquarters, Moline, Illinois A 'Tulip' chair