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Eero Saarinen Research Paper

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In the year 1910 of August 20th, Eero Saarinen was born in Kirkkonummi, Finland from his two parents, Eliel Saarinen and Louise Gesellius. By the age of thirteen, he immigrated to Bloomfield Hills, Michigan in the United States that had then allowed him to have a new perception of architecture as he was able to view both Finnish and American artwork in his career. He was taught by his father, Eliel Saarinen, who was also an architect that designed the Helsinki Central Railway Station, National Museum of Finland, and more. Eliel Saarinen taught in Cranbrook Academy of Art which Eero Saarinen attended to take classes of furniture and sculpture design. From there, by the age of 19, he traveled internationally to Paris, France for him …show more content…

Based on the reference, he had taken the art work of Neo-Futurist Internationalism and expressed it in buildings that consisted with “sweeping curves” and “abundant glass” which had some relation into carrying his father’s work as he also worked with those elements. These aspects had allowed him to become more diverse into creating different types of buildings such as designing the MIT chapel or the Gateway Arch which was personally likable when going through the process of creating a masterpiece. One of the more favorable buildings I personally found fascinating was the TWA Flights Center that was released in 1962 that had a futuristic and modern look to it that looked astonishing. Throughout the end of his career he had worked well with Charles Eames, another well-known architect, who had influenced him into creating modern furniture which had later on made Saarinen into joining the American Maker Furniture Movement along with Eames. This movement had led Saarinen into creating modern art pieces of furniture which had significantly played a big role into his career after sketching …show more content…

One of his well-known buildings was the Gateway Arch that opened in February 12, 1963 in St Louis, Missouri that had been a memorial and observation building for the westward expansion. Unfortunately, Eero Saarinen died 2 years earlier of the release of the stainless steel, 1076 step building which had led to his partners, Kevin Roche and Kevin Dinkeloo, into finishing the building. Another major accomplishment he achieved was creating the TWA Flights Center located in Queens, New York with outstanding features having a Modern and Futurist architectural style. An interesting fact that occurred in this terminal was when Leonardo DiCaprio had shot scenes inside the flight center for a movie he stared in called Catch Me if You Can. Saarinen had also built the MIT Chapel in 1955 which was known to have a modern architectural style considering its facade is simple with trees and grass complementing it. The interior part of the chapel is the most interesting part of it as it had a circular opening on top, exposing natural light in the room which contains high level detailing creating this atmospheric feeling. These buildings were designed by Eero Saarinen throughout his life and even after he died that would symbolize his

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