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...while flying around the lecture circuit or to Europe, works them out only on weekends. A scholar as well, he has taught in seven colleges since graduating with an M.A. from Yale, written four books, including biographies of the artists George Caleb Bingham, Boardman Robinson and Finnish-born Architect Eliel Saarinen, under whom he worked at Michigan's Cranbrook Academy...
...designer under Architect Henry Killam Murphy in Shanghai. "It's a good idea to cut your teeth where the product won't be around to haunt you later," says Bacon. Back in the U.S. after a year, he wrote to the late great architect and city planner, Eliel Saarinen, asking for a fellowship at Saarinen's Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Mich...
...Eliel Saarinen was my great master and teacher," says Bacon. "He emphasized design as the relationship of form and space; so the real design problem is the city. Saarinen taught us that harmony of form and mass doesn't stop at property lines but continues." The Bacon generation at Cranbrook included such notables of arts and architecture as Designer Charles Eames, Sculptor Harry Bertoia, Eliel's late son Eero, and Designer Florence Knoll...
...father, Eliel. was Finland's top architect. Fortunately, he was also a warmhearted man who did everything he could to encourage his little "Poju" (Sonny) when the boy began to show a talent for drawing. In 1923, when Eero was twelve, Eliel decided to move to the U.S. Young Eero went through the Yale School of Architecture, and in time he and his father went into partnership...
...Schools of Tomorrow," Sept. 12. We are honored to be mistaken for Richard J. Neutra. I am sure he would have done Crow Island School better, but I believe that it was, in fact, designed by Perkins, Wheeler and Will, with Eliel and Eero Saarinen. Please advise before you put our babies out for adoption...