Word: eliel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From 408 competing designs the jury* first chose ten finalists, allowed them five weeks to refine their work, then last week sweated for three days to pick the winner. Not only architecturally but politically popular, it was a design submitted by debt-paying Finland's clearheaded, apple-cheeked Eliel Saarinen, his broad-shouldered, brilliant son, Eero, and his son-in-law, Robert Swanson, all of Cranbrook Academy, Michigan. Professor Hudnut called the prize-($7,500)-winning design "well organized, logical and reasonable . . . yet with classical feeling...
Last week Senior Partner Erro Saarinen, broad-shouldered, impish son of Cranbrook's famed, apple-cheeked Finnish Architect Eliel Saarinen, was elated but slightly old-hand about the victory. Five years ago he won third place in an architectural competition in Helsingfors," last summer won a fifth in the Wheaton College free-for-all (TIME, June 13). A few weeks before the deadline this year, he confided, "I went skiing up at Quebec, and to hell with it." He got back in time to help Friends James and Rapson get their entry in just under the wire, because "competitions...
...deeded by its owners to the Boston Symphony two years ago. After a concert was spectacularly rained out of a large tent last summer, energetic President Smith started a drive to raise $100,000 for permanent quarters. Glad to get $80,000, the Festival committee commissioned Finnish Architect Eliel Saarinen to design the Shed-a fan-shaped, open-sided building covering an acre and a half, its roof supported by three interior pillars and a colonnade. The Shed's acoustics are so excellent that an orchestral pianissimo can be heard by an overflow audience outside the colonnade. Last week...
...famous for her athletes than for her salons. But Tavasts and Karelians (all Finns are one or the other) point with greater pride to Finland's world's champion literacy record, boast that, except for 0.9% every last Finn today can read and write, exhibit Modernist Architect Eliel Saarinen as world evidence of Finnish culture. If you were to ask on the streets of a U. S. city who was the outstanding modern Finn, chances are the reply would be: Paavo Nurmi. But if you asked the same question on the streets of Helsingfors the answer would almost...
...Festival obtain a permanent home. Result was that the present owners of Tanglewood, Mrs. Gorham Brooks and Miss Mary Aspinwall Tappan of Brookline, turned their estate over to the Festival committee, which raised $16,000 in pledges for an orchestra pavilion to be designed by famed Finnish-born Architect Eliel Saarinen...