Eero Saarinen
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Shaping the Future
Edited by Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen and Donald Albrecht; With contributions by Mark Coir, Sandy Isenstadt, Reinhold Martin, Will Miller, and Vincent Scully
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The most authoritative book to date on the life and work of Eero Saarinen, one of the most influential architects of the 20th century
From the swooping concrete vaults of the TWA Terminal at JFK Airport to the 630-foot-tall Gateway Arch in St. Louis, the iconic designs of Eero Saarinen (1910–1961) captured the aspirations and values of mid-20th-century America. Potent expressions of national power, these and other Saarinen-designed structures—including the GM Technical Center, Dulles International Airport, and John Deere headquarters—helped create the international image of the United States in the decades following World War II.
Eero Saarinen: Shaping the Future offers a new and wide-ranging look at the entire scope of Saarinen’s career. This is the first book on Saarinen to incorporate significant research and materials from the newly available archives of his office, and includes the most complete portfolio of Saarinen's projects to date—a chronological survey of more than 100 built and unbuilt works, previously unpublished photographs, plans, and working drawings.
Lavishly illustrated, this major study shows how Saarinen gave his structures an expressive dimension and helped introduce modern architecture to the mainstream of American practice. In his search for a richer and more varied modern architecture, Saarinen became one of the most prolific and controversial practitioners of his time.
Published in association with the Finnish Cultural Institute in New York, the National Building Museum, Washington, D.C., and the Museum of Finnish Architecture
Exhibition Schedule:
Kunsthalle Helsinki, Finland (October 6 – December 6, 2006)
National Building Museum, Washington, D.C. (May 3 – August 23, 2008)
Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan (November 17, 2007 – March 30, 2008)
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University, St. Louis (January 31 – April 26, 2009)
Yale University Art Gallery and Yale University School of Architecture, New Haven, Connecticut (Spring 2010)
The National Museum of Art, Architecture, and Design, Oslo (January 20 – March 18, 2007)
CIVA, The International Centre for Urbanism, Architecture, and Landscape, Brussels (April 19 – September 16, 2007)
Minneapolis Institute of Art and Walker Arts Center (September 14 – January 4, 2009)
EXHIBITION SCHEDULE
Kunsthalle Helsinki, Finland (October 6 – December 6, 2006)
National Building Museum, Washington, D.C. (May 3 – August 23, 2008)
Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan (November 17, 2007 – March 30, 2008)
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University, St. Louis (January 31 – April 26, 2009)
Yale University Art Gallery and Yale University School of Architecture, New Haven, Connecticut (Spring 2010)
The National Museum of Art, Architecture, and Design, Oslo (January 20 – March 18, 2007)
CIVA, The International Centre for Urbanism, Architecture, and Landscape, Brussels (April 19 – September 16, 2007)
Minneapolis Institute of Art and Walker Arts Center (September 14 – January 4, 2009)
“[The] Saarinen exhibition and book . . . are the first major projects drawing on the Yale archive, which includes some 500 rolls of drawings and more than 100 boxes of other materials. . . . The collection offers a detailed look into Saarinen’s creative process—early sketches in which the fundamentals of a design like the Gateway Arch are being worked out or communicated to colleagues, photographs and mockups, and construction drawings showing just how he proposed to build his designs.”—Mark Alden Branch, Yale Alumni Magazine
"Recommended."—Met Home
“An unprecedented inventory.”—Raymund Ryan, Architecture Ireland
“Until the publication of this book . . . the complete works and the creative process of this second-generation modernist master were waiting to be explored in depth.”—Architect Magazine
“The definitive portrait of the man and his work.”—Civil Engineering
Publication Date: May 31, 2011
Publishing Partner: Published in association with the Finnish Cultural Institute in New York, the National Building Museum, Washington, D.C., and the Museum of Finnish Architecture
125 color + 321 b/w illus.
