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    Eero Saarinen

    Finnish-American architect (–)

    Eero Saarinen (, Finnish:[ˈeːroˈsɑːrinen]; August 20, – September 1, ) was a Finnish-American architect and industrial designer who created a wide array of innovative designs for buildings and monuments, including the General Motors Technical Center in Warren, Michigan; the passenger terminal at Dulles International Airport outside Washington, D.C.; the TWA Flight Center (now TWA Hotel) at John F. Kennedy International Airport; the Vivian Beaumont Theater at Lincoln Center in New York City; and the Gateway Arch in St. Louis. He was the son of Finnish architect Eliel Saarinen.

    Early life and education

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    Eero Saarinen was born in Hvitträsk (then in the Russian Empire) on August 20, , to Finnish architect Eliel Saarinen and his second wife, Louise, on his father's 37th birthday.[1][2] They migrated to the United States in , when Eero was thirteen.[1][2] He grew up in Bloomfield H

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    Eero Saarinen - Architect With a Vision

    By Michael A. Capps

    In , at the age of 12, Eero Saarinen took first place in a matchstick design contest. It was the first of many competitions he would win in his life, and foreshadowed his remarkable career as an architect. Born in Finland in , Eero Saarinen was the son of Eliel Saarinen, a noted and respected architect. His mother, Loja Saarinen, was a gifted sculptor, weaver, photographer, and architectural model maker. Eero grew up in a household where drawing and painting were taken very seriously, and a devotion to quality and professionalism were instilled in him at an early age. He was taught 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."

    In the Saarinens immigrated to the United States and settled in Michigan, north of stad, where Eliel administered the Cranbrook Institute of Architecture and Design. Between and , Ee

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    Summary of Eero Saarinen

    One New Year's Day at 8 o'clock in the morning, Eero Saarinen arrived at his office, looked around and, seeing only his assistant Kevin Roche, said, "Where the hell is everybody?" Roche then had to remind Saarinen that it was a major holiday. But most people who worked or lived with Eero Saarinen would probably say that was par for the course, as he was a highly ambitious and extremely motivated architect - we might say today that his work gave him "tunnel vision". Saarinen's passion for architecture and design, recognized from a very early age, led him to develop his personal, often sculptural, direction and an adventurous spirit. In a rather brief career, Saarinen's imaginative daring produced an extraordinary set of highly futuristic buildings of virtually every possible type, whose impressive stature and visionary designs mean that they still seem to be ahead of their time and have largely remained unaltered more than a half-century later.

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