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Eero Saarinen

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Auteur:Jayne Merkel

Uitgever:PHAIDON

ISBN: 978-0-7148-6592-8

  • Paperback
  • Engels
  • 256 pagina's
  • 1 apr. 2014

The most thorough monograph on the mid-century master of mid-modernism: Eero Saarinen (1910-61), the Finnish-born, American-trained master of mid-century Modernism

This book traces Saarinen's life and career from his childhood in Finland to collaboration with his father, architect Eliel Saarinen, to his iconic airport projects of the 1960s and documents more than 60 buildings and projects, including corporate complexes for General Motors, CBS, IBM and other firms, US embassies in London and Oslo, university campuses, and furniture for Knoll.

Quotes numerous interviews with Saarinen's colleagues and architecture critics, such as Robert A M Stern, Florence Knoll Bassett and Cesar Pelli, examining how Saarinen was viewed in his own time and today.

The most thorough monograph on the mid-century master of mid-modernism: Eero Saarinen (1910-61), the Finnish-born, American-trained master of mid-century Modernism

This book traces Saarinen's life and career from his childhood in Finland to collaboration with his father, architect Eliel Saarinen, to his iconic airport projects of the 1960s and documents more than 60 buildings and projects, including corporate complexes for General Motors, CBS, IBM and other firms, US embassies in London and Oslo, university campuses, and furniture for Knoll.

Quotes numerous interviews with Saarinen's colleagues and architecture critics, such as Robert A M Stern, Florence Knoll Bassett and Cesar Pelli, examining how Saarinen was viewed in his own time and today. Extensive period photography by renowned architectural photographers Ezra Stoller, Balthazar Korab and others, as well as colour photographs, plans and original sketches and drawings.

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