Word: eliel
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Detroit Newspaper Magnate George Gough Booth and his wife Ellen Scripps Booth, both philanthropists and aesthetes under the spell of the arts and crafts movement that was launched in England in the 1880s, inspired by the work of the designer-poet William Morris. They enlisted a kindred spirit-Eliel Saarinen, then Finland's leading architect-to serve as Cranbrook's designer, president and guiding force. Saarinen's stately, romantic brick buildings, with their web of walkways, courts, terraces, stairs and walls, all highlighted with sculptures and other objects by the outstanding artists Saarinen attracted to Cranbrook, probably...
...Winnetka, Ill., and the calm, lofty First Christian Church in Columbus, Ind. Eero's work eventually eclipsed his father's. His eerily mysterious M.I.T. Chapel at Cambridge, Mass., is not only one of his own but also one of 20th century architecture's greatest triumphs. After Eliel's death in 1950 at the age of 76, the academy's influence spread through the work of Eero and a number of students and associates who became some of the country's leading planners and architects, among them Edmund Bacon, Carl Feiss, Harry Weese, Cesar Pelli...
...been more true than at Cranbrook that "architecture is the mother of the arts," as architects are fond of saying. Among the works created under the academy's aegis: the sculpture of Carl Milles, Tony Rosenthal, Harry Bertoia and others; the rugs and wall hangings of Eliel Saarinen's wife Loja, his daughter Pipsan and Marianne Strengell; and the furniture and furnishings of Charles and Ray Eames, Bertoia and Eero Saarinen. Says Met Curator Miller: "Cranbrook's artists all conceived their work in an architectural context and believed in the totality of design from the largest...
...tell what will happen, but it's exciting and new," says Eric Eliel, one of Silvera's post-doctoral students...
...think we know what the others are up to," Eliel says, adding. "As far as competition goes, we're making a bigger investment than most groups...