BornAugust 20, 1910Kirkkonummi, Finland, Russian Empire

DiedSeptember 1, 1961 (aged 51)Ann Arbor, Michigan, US

Nationality Finnish American

Awards AIA Gold Medal (1962)

Design

Gateway ArchWashington Dulles International AirportTWA Flight CenterTulip 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

EERO SARINEN’S WORK

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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 Eero Saarinen, have been demolished, the Saarinen-designed terminal (or head house) has been renovated, partially encircled by and serving as a ceremonial entrance to a new adjacent terminal completed in 2008. Together, the old and new buildings comprise JetBlue Airways' JFK operations and are known collectively as Terminal 5 or simply T5.

While noted architect Robert A. M. Stern called the evocative Saarinen-designed TWA Flight Center "Grand Central of the jet age",the pragmatic new encircling terminal has been called "hyper-efficient" and a "monument to human throughput".

Sections of the TWA Flight Centre

The Tulip chair was designed by Eero Saarinen in 1955 and 1956] for the Knoll company of New York City.] It was designed primarily as a chair to match the complementary dining table. The chair has the smooth lines of modernism and was experimental with materials for its time.

Tulip chair

Details of the chair

It was used in the famous Star Trek series

CROW ISLAND SCHOOL Crow Island School in Winnetka, Illinois, is an elementary school significant for its

progressive philosophy and its architecture. The design of its building was a collaboration between the Chicago firm of Perkins, Wheeler and Will and Eero Saarinen. It currently serves kindergarten through fourth grade students.The school was established in 1940-41.The original jungle gym is located here, having been moved from Horace Mann School in 1940.The school was awarded the Twenty-five Year Award by the American Institute of Architects in 1971.

It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1990.

Exterior, Main Entry Plan

Classroom furniture designed to reinforce educational concepts. Flexible classroom furniture scaled for children.

GENERAL MOTORS TECHNICAL CENTREThe GM Technical Center is a General Motors facility in Warren, Michigan. The campus is home to 16,000 GM engineers, designers, and technicians and has been the center of the company's engineering effort since its inauguration in 1956.The "Tech Center" was designed by architect Eero Saarinen, with construction beginning in 1949.The Tech Center includes 330 acres (1.3 km2) with 11 miles (18 km) of roads and 1.1 miles (1.8 km) of tunnels. It includes 25 main buildings and numerous additional structures including a water tower and 22-acre (89,000 m2) lake

Site plan The essential site plan components of the corporate campus are the central open space surrounded by laboratory buildings circumscribed by peripheral parking and driveways

The dramatic circular staircase in the R&D Administration Building, nicknamed the “Floating Staircase,” acts as a large-scale sculpture for the lobby space. The steps seem to hover in space, held from above and below by stainless-steel suspension rods .

Main display area of Styling Dome.

View of the centre Site plan

CONCLUSIONSaarinen died while undergoing an operation for a brain tumor at the age of 51. His wife, Aline, coincidentally, would also die of the same ailment. His partners, Kevin Roche and John Dinkeloo, completed his 10 remaining projects, including the St. Louis Arch.Eero Saarinen was elected a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects in 1952. He is also a winner of the AIA Gold Medal in 1962.Saarinen is now considered one of the masters of American 20th-century architecture.] There has been a surge of interest in Saarinen's work in recent years, including a major exhibition and several books. This is partly because the Roche and Dinkeloo office has donated its Saarinen archives to Yale University, but also because Saarinen's oeuvre can be said to fit in with present-day concerns about pluralism of styles. He was criticized in his own time—most vociferously by Yale's Vincent Scully—for having no identifiable style; one explanation for this is that Saarinen adapted his neofuturistic vision to each individual client and project, which were never exactly the same.In May 2008, the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C. created an exhibition dedicated solely to the work and life of Eero Saarinen. The exhibition, titled Eero Saarinen: Shaping the Future, was available to the public until August 2008.

“The purpose of architecture is to shelter and enhance man’s life on earth and to fulfill his belief in the nobility of his existence,”