Word: eero
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...International Style, promulgated mostly by Weimar Germany's Bauhaus: sleek, austere functionalism that lent an impersonal, industrialized finish to everything from skyscrapers to fountain pens. Increasingly, however, we are realizing that the design that has most consistently appealed to us all along-buildings like Eero Saarinen's main terminal at Dulles International Airport, furnishings like the Eames lounge chair-had its genesis not in Weimar but in a relatively little-known school of art and design in the wooded hills of Michigan, 20 miles north of Detroit...
...these insights came later. In 1952 Lever House was universally praised. On Park Avenue at present, its quality is surpassed only by Mies van der Rohe's Seagram Building, one block away. Said Architect Eero Saarinen: "Bunshaft should be covered with laurels. He has created one of the finest buildings of our time...
...most decisive influence on him at the time was Eero Saarinen, son of the eminent Finnish-American architect Eliel Saarinen. The young Saarinen had just opened his independent practice in Bloomfield Hills, Mich., and Roche and Dinkeloo, an architect who was a genius at structural engineering, joined the firm at about the same time...
Said Roche wryly as he received the prestigious Pritzker prize: "There are many fine architects around who are more deserving of this than I. Who they are, I cannot think of at this moment." He will use the money to endow an Eero Saarinen Chair of Architecture at Yale University. -By Wolf Von Eckardt
...that was wholly unique or specifically American in spirit." What was this spirit, this ignored Zeitgeist? Tailfins and Empire: "the Hog-stomping Baroque exuberance of American civilization." Those who did serve it were banished as apostates, and become the heroes of Wolfe's narrative: John Portman, Morris Lapidus, Eero Saarinen and Edward Durell Stone...