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    Eero Saarinen (/ˈeɪroʊ ˈsɑːrɪnən, ˈɛəroʊ -/, Finnish: [ˈeːro ˈsɑːrinen]; August 20, 1910 – September 1, 1961) was a Finnish-American architect and industrial...
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  • Finnish-American architect Eero Saarinen. Many of Saarinen's early designs were in collaboration with his father Eliel Saarinen. Pelkonen, Eeva-Liisa; Albrecht...
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    of the 20th century. He was also the father of famed architect Eero Saarinen. Saarinen was educated in Helsinki at the Helsinki University of Technology...
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  • Eric Saarinen (born June 26, 1942) is an American cinematographer and film director. His parents were the architect Eero Saarinen and his first wife, the...
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    Beach-Anaheim, CA MSA 11,325 (0.09%) Architect and product designer Eero Saarinen immigrated to the United States in 1923 when he was thirteen years of...
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    Oscar Niemeyer MIT Chapel by Eero Saarinen North Christian Church, Columbus, Indiana, US, the final work of Eero Saarinen Stahl House by Pierre Koenig...
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    Institute of Technology. In the U.S., he became the principal designer for Eero Saarinen and opened his own architectural firm in 1967. Among other awards, Roche...
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  • the first wife of Finnish-American architect and industrial designer Eero Saarinen, with whom she sometimes collaborated. She was born in New York City...
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    Terminal at JFK Airport in New York, by Eero Saarinen (1956–62) Eero Saarinen (1910–1961) was the son of Eliel Saarinen, the most famous Finnish architect...
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  • Lawrence, Aline B. Saarinen (1960). Jacob Lawrence. American Federation of Arts. Eero Saarinen, Aline Bernstein Saarinen (1962). Eero Saarinen on his work....
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    Florence Knoll, Frank Gehry, Charles Gwathmey, Maya Lin, Marcel Breuer, Eero Saarinen, and Lella and Massimo Vignelli, under the company's KnollStudio division...
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    designed by Kevin Roche John Dinkeloo and Associates, was built in 1973. Eero Saarinen designed the bank building with its glazed hall to be set off against...
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    by Eero Saarinen in 1955 and 1956 for the Knoll company of New York City. The designs were initially entitled the 'Pedestal Group' before Saarinen and...
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    TWA Flight Center (category Eero Saarinen structures)
    T5. The TWA Flight Center was designed for Trans World Airlines by Eero Saarinen and Associates starting in 1956. It was erected between 1959 and 1962...
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  • furniture competition—with his “best friend” Eero Saarinen—hosted by the Museum of Modern Art. Eames and Saarinen's goal was to mold a single piece of plywood...
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    Gateway Arch (category Eero Saarinen structures)
    St. Louis. The Arch was designed by the Finnish-American architect Eero Saarinen in 1947, and construction began on February 12, 1963 and was completed...
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    North Christian Church (category Eero Saarinen church buildings)
    designed by Finnish-American architect Eero Saarinen (1910–1961) and completed in 1964. Saarinen's father Eliel Saarinen had designed the First Christian Church...
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  • 1967), Finnish ice hockey player Arno Saarinen, Finnish gymnast Eliel Saarinen, Finnish architect Eero Saarinen, son of Eliel, also a Finnish architect...
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    returned to his home state where he joined Eero Saarinen and Associates in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. Saarinen quickly saw the potential in Dinkeloo, and...
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    architect Eliel Saarinen and noted textile designer and sculptor Loja Saarinen. She was the elder sister of celebrated architect Eero Saarinen. She studied...
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  • hockey player Eero Saarinen (1910–1961), Finnish-American architect Eero Salisma (1916–1998), Finnish professional ice hockey player Eero Salo (1921-1975)...
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    the head house of the TWA Flight Center, designed by the architect Eero Saarinen and completed in 1962, and two flanking buildings added for the hotel...
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    CBS Building (category Eero Saarinen structures)
    constructed from 1961 to 1964 and was the only skyscraper designed by Eero Saarinen, who referred to the building as the "simplest skyscraper statement...
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    General Motors Technical Center (category Eero Saarinen structures)
    President of Styling, Harley Earl, the corporation selected architect Eero Saarinen as the architect for the "Tech Center," with construction beginning...
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    seen across Europe as well as North America. Modernist architects Eero Saarinen and Alexander Girard used a conversation pit as the centerpiece of the...
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    modern style, elements of which represent the populuxe aesthetic, as in Eero Saarinen's TWA Terminal. The term Googie comes from the now-defunct Googies Coffee...
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    This was a large and architecturally significant modern design by Eero Saarinen, being at the time a controversial insertion into a mainly Georgian...
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  • popularized by Herder and Goethe. Zeitgeist in Grimm, Deutsches Wörterbuch. Eero Saarinen (2006), Shaping the Future, Yale University Press, p. 15, ISBN 978-0-972-48812-9...
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    Vivian Beaumont Theater (category Eero Saarinen structures)
    theater was one of the last structures designed by modernist architect Eero Saarinen. The theater shares a building with the New York Public Library for...
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    Gateway Arch National Park (category Eero Saarinen structures)
    structure in Missouri. It was designed by the Finnish-American architect Eero Saarinen and the German-American structural engineer Hannskarl Bandel in 1947...
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