Eero Saarinen

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Biography

Son of Eliel Saarinen and Louise (Loja) Gesellius, the sculptor and weaver. Eero Saarinen emigrated with his family to the United States in 1923. He attended the Académie de la Grande Chaumière, Paris, France, (1929 -1930/1931), studied architecture at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, and worked in his father's architectural firm, Saarinen and Saarinen, in Ann Arbor, Michigan (1936/1937-1941). He was partner with his father and J. Robert Swanson as Saarinen-Swanson-Saarinen in Ann Arbor (1941-1947) and partner with his father as Saarinen and Associates in Ann Arbor (1947-1950). He directed Eero Saarinen and Associates, Birmingham, Michigan, 1950-1961. He acted as a consultant for the Architects Advisory Panel for the Unesco buildings (built 1955-1958) in Paris, France. American architect.

  • Active years
  • 51
  • Primary profession
  • Actor·miscellaneous·soundtrack
  • Country
  • United States
  • Nationality
  • American
  • Gender
  • Male
  • Birth date
  • 17 November 1956
  • Place of birth
  • Kirkkonummi
  • Death date
  • 1961-09-01
  • Death age
  • 51
  • Place of death
  • Ann Arbor· Michigan
  • Cause of death
  • Natural causes
  • Spouses
  • Lilian Swann Saarinen·Aline B. Saarinen
  • Education
  • Yale School of Architecture·Académie de la Grande Chaumière·Yale University
  • Knows language
  • English language
  • Member of
  • American Academy of Arts and Sciences·Bayerische Akademie der Schönen Künste·American Academy of Arts and Letters
  • Parents
  • Eliel Saarinen

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Trivia

He is musical

He is very popular voice actor and narrator

Quotes

Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context - a chair in a room a room in a house a house in an environment an environment in a city plan. .

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