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The roundtable meeting was held by the Working Group for Sustainable Cities, founded in 2008 by Martha Schwartz, a professor in practice of landscape architecture at the Graduate School of Design.
The most important project of Eliel Saarinen's American career was Cranbrook Academy, a school of the arts situated on the estate of a wealthy patron in Bloomfield Hills, Mich., where the Saarinens soon relocated. In his teens, Eero worked occasionally on projects in his father's studio. From early...
In Saarinen they found a man who operated in their sweet spot. His work had the richness and lyricism that so many Modernist buildings lacked. At the same time, he had taste and intelligence. He wasn't about to give them the kind of thing suited to Vegas casinos and...
All the things that pure Modernism excluded from architecture, including symbolism and psychology, Saarinen brought to his TWA terminal. With the wide concrete wingspread of its flaring roof, it resembles a bird in flight. But more than that, it has an almost maternal quality, one that's re-emphasized by...
The Greeks called architecture the mother of all arts. Maybe it took Saarinen to show how true that was.