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...experience as expressed in its furniture and furnishings. The volume begins with a 1629 hooded wicker cradle, medieval in its lines, then follows the American progress from straight-backed Puritan spareness through the clotting commercial optimism and extravagance of the 19th century, and on into the 20th with its Saarinen plastic pedestal chairs and the eerie metaphysical fatuousness of Andy Warhol's wallpaper decorated with large portraits of cows' heads. Generously illustrated, with a minutely expert and civilized text...
...Saarinen's firm created the Kresge Auditorium and the Chapel at M.I.T...
Louis' Gateway Arch, the TWA terminal at Kennedy Airport and the majestic Dulles International Airport terminal. Each building was different and exciting. Each was "to explore and expand the horizons of our architecture," said Saarinen...
...Saarinen suddenly died just as his growing firm was moving into a Teutonic mansion in Hamden, Conn. Roche and Dinkeloo took over the business and kept the Saarinen promise. "What Saarinen taught us," says Roche, who became an American citizen in 1964, "is not to find a new mold or formula for producing architecture like so many automobiles, but to design each building with a fresh enthusiasm for meeting its specific requirements...
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