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...decades after World War II, when America was assuming its new role as the center of the known universe, Eero Saarinen was the man who supplied it with an architecture suited to the place where the future happened. For the marquee names of American capitalism - General Motors, IBM, CBS - he designed buildings that were more than just corporate facilities. They were signposts for modernity, theirs and the nation's. For New York City and Washington, Saarinen provided airport terminals that were symbols of the excitement and glamour of air travel. (It was once possible to think of air travel that...
...cover of TIME, he had A-list clients, and his streamlined furniture for Knoll was so of the moment that Coca-Cola used his Womb chair in a magazine ad showing an exhausted Santa Claus slumped in it. (See TIME's video "The Legacy and Return of Architect Eero Saarinen...
...future and a strong influence on the Empire State Building and Rockefeller Center. The fame it brought the elder Saarinen in the U.S. persuaded him to emigrate the following year from Finland to Chicago. A few months later, his wife and children, including his precocious 12-year-old Eero, joined...
...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 his career, the younger Saarinen's buildings grew out of the Modernist principles of simplified form and clearly expressed structure. But soon he was looking for ways to move beyond the arctic purities of Modernism's first generation. Mies van der Rohe and Le Corbusier had done what they could...
What's On in St. Louis. The Kemper Art Museum in St. Louis, Mo., has a retrospective of mid-century modernist architect Eero Saarinen, who designed the iconic TWA terminal at JFK airport and, of course, St. Louis's Gateway Arch. "Shaping the Future" takes a look at the Finnish architect's work through full-scale mock-ups and a selection of drawings, models, photographs and films, through April 27. Washington University, Skinker and Forsyth Blvds., St. Louis...