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...function. The architect, an almost unknown 38-year-old Dane named Jørn Utzon, had worked none of that out; he did not, as he later remarked, expect to win. Utzon's victory, it is believed, was largely due to one of the judges, the late Eero Saarinen, whose own fondness for shell construction had been embodied a year before in his design...
...does not hesitate to preach what he practices, irking conventional architects. "Handsome details and elegant proportions are meaningless," he says. "No one notices them; they fade into the canyon walls." He therefore deprecates Manhattan's architectural landmarks-Lud-wig Mies van der Rohe's Seagram building and Eero Saarinen's CBS building, for example-calling them "gigantic sculptures that do nothing for the city. Look at their plazas. Dead spaces!" Their tragic flaw, he insists, is that the architects designed the ground floor to relate to the building rather than to the street, where the activity...
Died. Aline Saarinen, 58, art critic, newswoman and widow of Architect Eero Saarinen; from a brain tumor; in Manhattan. A former managing editor of Art News, Saarinen began her television career eight years ago as a correspondent on NBC's Today show. Handsome and gay, acerbic and outspoken, she was a refreshing commentator on a wide range of subjects on her own TV talk show, For Women Only, before NBC sent her to Paris in 1971 as the first woman bureau chief in television history...
Sekler traced Eames's career, from his early association with Eero Saarinen and their furniture designs...
...will do to it, but rather what Charles Eames will do with it. In the same way that he has transformed the lounge chair and ottoman into a voluptuous and functional medley. Eames has transformed the lecture into a multi-image, multi-media environment: in 1940 Eames and architect Eero Saarinen won first prize for designs entered in the Museum of Modern Art's Organic Furniture Competition; and at the University of Georgia and UCLA in 1953, Eames and his wife, Ray, for the first time used multi-media techniques in a public presentation...