Word: eero
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Eero Saarinen creates in New Haven the beginnings of what perhaps will become a revolution in the architecture of Yale University: with the construction of two new colleges, he expands the vocabulary of modern design...
...Yale's new building program is, in fact, an architectural revolution, one of the principal insurrectionaries has been the late Eero Saarinen. The first of his contributions to Yale was the dramatic Ingalls Hockey Rink and the second, two new colleges which will be completed this summer. The colleges are among the best designed student dormitories built in this country for some time; they combine an excellent appearance with all the economy and utility required of a modern college structure...
Every decade has its new chair. In the '30s people perched in the plywood Alvar Aalto chair; in the '40s it was Charles Eames's Potato Chip; the '50s sought refuge in the Womb Chair of Eero Saarinen. But the chosen chair of the '60s is not new at all; the Thonet (pronounced Tonay) bentwood has been around for more than 100 years...
...years ago, the school that bore one of U.S. Jewry's most honored names (the late Supreme Court Justice Louis Dembitz Brandeis) had 107 freshmen and a faculty of 13. Its plant was the defunct Middlesex University, a few old buildings dominated by a fake castle that Architect Eero Saarinen described as "Mexican-Ivanhoe." But in naming a president, the founders made the happy choice of Historian Abram Leon Sachar, chairman of the National Hillel Commission, who exuberantly diagnosed himself as suffering from an "edifice complex...
...genius of Eero Saarinen was rewarded twice last week. The New York chapter of the American Institute of Architects presented his widow, Aline, with its Medal of Honor, a tribute to the "combined esthetic delights and technical rewards" of Saarinen's diverse forms. And the Columbia Broadcasting System announced that construction will start this spring on its new 38-story freestanding tower-Saarinen's only building in Manhattan and his only skyscraper...