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Eero Saarinen

Finnish-American architect and industrial designer noted for his neo-futuristic style. Created by: PICRYL - Public Domain Media Search EngineDated: 1950
Trans World Airlines Terminal, John F. Kennedy (originally Idlewild) Airport, New York, New York, 1956-62. Information desk
Eero Saarinen parents immigrated to the United States in 1923, when Eero was thirteen. He grew up in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, where his father taught and was dean of the Cranbrook Academy of Art. Saarinen began studies in sculpture at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière in Paris, France, in 1929. He then went on to study at the Yale School of Architecture, completing his studies in 1934. After that, he toured Europe and North Africa for a year and returned for a year to his native Finland for one year, and returned to Cranbrook to work for his father's firm "Saarinen, Swansen and Associates", and teach at the academy.

Saarinen first received critical recognition, while still working for his father, for a chair designed together with Charles Eames for the "Organic Design in Home Furnishings" competition in 1940, for which they received first prize. The "Tulip Chair", like all other Saarinen chairs, was taken into production by the Knoll furniture company, founded by Hans Knoll, who married Saarinen family friend Florence (Schust) Knoll.

During his long association with Knoll he designed many important pieces of furniture including the "Grasshopper" lounge chair and ottoman (1946), the "Womb" chair and ottoman (1948), the "Womb" settee (1950), side and armchairs (1948–1950), and his most famous "Tulip" or "Pedestal" group (1956), which featured side and armchairs, dining, coffee and side tables, as well as a stool. All of these designs were highly successful except for the "Grasshopper" lounge chair, which, although in production through 1965, was not a big success.

Further attention came also while Saarinen was still working for his father when he took first prize in the 1948 competition for the design of the Gateway Arch National Park (then known as the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial) in St. Louis. The memorial wasn't completed until the 1960s.

One of Saarinen's earliest works to receive international acclaim is the Crow Island School in Winnetka, Illinois (1940). The first major work by Saarinen, in collaboration with his father, was the General Motors Technical Center in Warren, Michigan, which follows the rationalist design Miesian style, incorporating steel and glass, but with the added accent of panels in two shades of blue. The GM Technical Center was constructed in 1956, with Saarinen using models, which allowed him to share his ideas with others and gather input from other professionals.

With the success of the scheme, Saarinen was then invited by other major American corporations such as John Deere, IBM, and CBS to design their new headquarters or other major corporate buildings. Despite their rationality, however, the interiors usually contained more dramatic sweeping staircases, as well as furniture designed by Saarinen, such as the Pedestal Series. In the 1950s he began to receive more commissions from American universities for campus designs and individual buildings; these include the Noyes dormitory at Vassar, Hill College House at the University of Pennsylvania, as well as an ice rink, Ingalls Rink, Ezra Stiles & Morse Colleges at Yale University, the MIT Chapel and neighboring Kresge Auditorium at MIT and the University of Chicago Law School building and grounds.

Saarinen served on the jury for the Sydney Opera House commission in 1957 and was crucial in the selection of the now internationally known design by Jørn Utzon. A jury which did not include Saarinen had discarded Utzon's design in the first round; Saarinen reviewed the discarded designs, recognized a quality in Utzon's design, and ultimately assured the commission of Utzon.

After his father's death in July 1950, Saarinen founded his own architect's office, "Eero Saarinen and Associates". He was the principal partner from 1950 until his death in 1961. Under Eero Saarinen, the firm carried out many of its most important works, including the Bell Labs Holmdel Complex in Holmdel Township, New Jersey, Gateway Arch National Park (including the Gateway Arch) in St. Louis, Missouri, the Miller House in Columbus, Indiana, the TWA Flight Center at John F. Kennedy International Airport that he worked on with Charles J. Parise, the main terminal of Washington Dulles International Airport, the new East Air Terminal of the old Athens airport in Greece, which opened in 1967, etc. Many of these projects use catenary curves in their structural designs.

In 1949-1950, Saarinen was hired by the then-new Brandeis University to create a master plan for the campus. Saarinen's plan A Foundation for Learning: Planning the Campus of Brandeis University (1949; second edition 1951), developed with Matthew Nowicki, called for a central academic complex surrounded by residential quadrangles along a peripheral road. The plan was never built but was useful in attracting donors. Saarinen did build a few residential structures on the campus, including Ridgewood Quadrangle (1950), Sherman Student Center (1952) and Shapiro Dormitory at Hamilton Quadrangle (1952). These have all been either demolished or extensively remodeled.

One of the best-known thin-shell concrete structures in America is the Kresge Auditorium (MIT), which was designed by Saarinen. Another thin-shell structure that he created is Yale's Ingalls Rink, which has suspension cables connected to a single concrete backbone and is nicknamed "the whale". Undoubtedly, his most famous work is the TWA Flight Center, which represents the culmination of his previous designs and demonstrates his neo-futuristic expressionism and the technical marvel in concrete shells. In 2019 the terminal was transformed into the TWA Hotel.

Eero Saarinen designed the Kleinhans Music Hall in Buffalo, New York together with his father Eliel Saarinen. He also designed the Embassy of the United States in London, which opened in 1960, and the Embassy of the United States in Oslo.

Saarinen worked with his father, mother, and sister designing elements of the Cranbrook campus in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, including the Cranbrook School, Kingswood School, the Cranbrook Art Academy, and the Cranbrook Science Institute. Eero Saarinen's leaded glass designs are a prominent feature of these buildings throughout the campus.

Eero Saarinen was elected a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects in 1952. He was elected a member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters in 1954. In 1962, he was posthumously awarded a gold medal by the American Institute of Architects.

In 1940, he received two first prizes together with Charles Eames in the furniture design competition of MoMA. In 1948, he won the first prize in Jefferson national monument competition. Boston Arts festival in 1953 gave him Grand architectural award. He received the First Honor Award of the American Institute of Architects twice, in 1955 and 1956, and their gold medal in 1962. In 1965 he got the first prize in the US Embassy competition in London.

Saarinen died on September 1, 1961, at the age of 51 while undergoing an operation for a brain tumor. He was in Ann Arbor, Michigan, overseeing the completion of a new music building for the University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre & Dance. He is buried at White Chapel Memorial Cemetery, in Troy, Michigan.

Saarinen is now considered one of the masters of American 20th-century architecture. There has been a surge of interest in Saarinen's work in recent years, including a major exhibition and several books. This is partly because the Roche and Dinkeloo office has donated its Saarinen archives to Yale University, but also because Saarinen's oeuvre can be said to fit in with present-day concerns about pluralism of styles. He was criticized in his own time—most vociferously by Yale's Vincent Scully—for having no identifiable style; one explanation for this is that Saarinen adapted his neo-futuristic vision to each individual client and project, which were never exactly the same.

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Miller house, Ontario, Canada, 1950-52. Bedroom

Miller house, Ontario, Canada, 1950-52. Bedroom

Box. no. 1. No. 182. Title and date from Eero Saarinen by De Long and Peatross, 2008. Credit line: Balthazar Korab collection of photographs showing Eero Saarinen architecture, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

Deere & Company Headquarters, Moline, Illinois, 1956-64. Office interior

Deere & Company Headquarters, Moline, Illinois, 1956-64. Office interi...

Box. no. 3. No. 631. Title and date from Eero Saarinen by De Long and Peatross, 2008. Credit line: Balthazar Korab collection of photographs showing Eero Saarinen architecture, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

David S. Ingalls Hockey Rink, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut. Longitudinal section and cross section

David S. Ingalls Hockey Rink, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut....

Gift; Kevin Roche; 2007. Published in: Eero Saarinen : buildings from the Balthazar Korab archive / edited by David G. De Long and C. Ford Peatross, 2008, p. 452. Accession box no. 14, folder 14.

IBM Manufacturing and Administrative Center, Rochester, Minnesota, 1956-58. Office interior

IBM Manufacturing and Administrative Center, Rochester, Minnesota, 195...

Box. no. 3. No. 487. Title and date from Eero Saarinen by De Long and Peatross, 2008. Credit line: Balthazar Korab collection of photographs showing Eero Saarinen architecture, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

IBM, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York, 1956-61. Interior

IBM, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York, 195...

Box. no. 3. No. 510. Title and date from Eero Saarinen by De Long and Peatross, 2008. Credit line: Balthazar Korab collection of photographs showing Eero Saarinen architecture, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

Close-up view of the Gateway Arch, the symbolic gateway to the West (although there's a great deal of midwest to go before the west is reached) and the centerpiece of the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial, St. Louis, Missouri

Close-up view of the Gateway Arch, the symbolic gateway to the West (a...

Public domain photograph - historical image of Missouri, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Close-up view of the Gateway Arch, the symbolic gateway to the West (although there's a great deal of midwest to go before the west is reached) and the centerpiece of the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial, St. Louis, Missouri

Close-up view of the Gateway Arch, the symbolic gateway to the West (a...

Designed by Finnish American architect Eero Saarenin. Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. T... More

Sitting area of the parents' bedroom at the Miller House, considered a modern-architecure gem designed by Finnish-American architect Eero Saarinen and completed in 1957 in Columbus, a south-central Indiana city that has become a destination for fine art and architecture lovers

Sitting area of the parents' bedroom at the Miller House, considered a...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. It earned that reputation after this house's owners, industrialist and philanthropist J. Irwin Miller and his wife, Xenia Simons Mille... More

Irwin Union Bank & Trust Company, Columbus, Indiana, 1950-57. Interior

Irwin Union Bank & Trust Company, Columbus, Indiana, 1950-57. Interior

Box. no. 2. No. 201. Title and date from Eero Saarinen by De Long and Peatross, 2008. Credit line: Balthazar Korab collection of photographs showing Eero Saarinen architecture, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

First Christian Church (originally Tabernacle Church of Christ; Columbus, Indiana, 1939-42; Saarinen and Saarinen). Interior

First Christian Church (originally Tabernacle Church of Christ; Columb...

Public domain photograph of a church interior, gothic architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Yale University, Morse and Stiles Colleges, New Haven, Connecticut. Site plan]

[Yale University, Morse and Stiles Colleges, New Haven, Connecticut. S...

Gift; Kevin Roche; 2007. Published in: Eero Saarinen : buildings from the Balthazar Korab archive / edited by David G. De Long and C. Ford Peatross, 2008, p. 457. Accession box no. 14, folder 19.

IBM Manufacturing and Administrative Center, Rochester, Minnesota, 1956-58. Interior

IBM Manufacturing and Administrative Center, Rochester, Minnesota, 195...

Box. no. 3. No. 483. Title and date from Eero Saarinen by De Long and Peatross, 2008. Credit line: Balthazar Korab collection of photographs showing Eero Saarinen architecture, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

Family office area at the Miller House, considered a modern-architecure gem designed by Finnish-American architect Eero Saarinen and completed in 1957 in Columbus, a south-central Indiana city that has become a destination for fine art and architecture lovers

Family office area at the Miller House, considered a modern-architecur...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. It earned that reputation after this house's owners, industrialist and philanthropist J. Irwin Miller and his wife, Xenia Simons Mille... More

Passageway at the Miller House, considered a modern-architecure gem designed by Finnish-American architect Eero Saarinen and completed in 1957 in Columbus, a south-central Indiana city that has become a destination for fine art and architecture lovers

Passageway at the Miller House, considered a modern-architecure gem de...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. It earned that reputation after this house's owners, industrialist and philanthropist J. Irwin Miller and his wife, Xenia Simons Mille... More

IBM Manufacturing and Administrative Center, Rochester, Minnesota, 1956-58. Façade studies with Eero Saarinen

IBM Manufacturing and Administrative Center, Rochester, Minnesota, 195...

Public domain photograph of cabinet, furniture, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Eero Saarinen guest house. Plan]

[Eero Saarinen guest house. Plan]

Gift; Kevin Roche; 2007. Published in: Eero Saarinen : buildings from the Balthazar Korab archive / edited by David G. De Long and C. Ford Peatross, 2008, p. 27. Accession box no. 14, folder 1.

Concordia Theological Seminary (originally Concordia Senior College), Fort Wayne, Indiana, 1953-58. Chapel interior

Concordia Theological Seminary (originally Concordia Senior College), ...

Box. no. 2. No. 395. Title and date from Eero Saarinen by De Long and Peatross, 2008. Credit line: Balthazar Korab collection of photographs showing Eero Saarinen architecture, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

[Eero Saarinen & Associates office. Plan]

[Eero Saarinen & Associates office. Plan]

Tearsheet from unidentified publication. Gift; Kevin Roche; 2007. Published in: Eero Saarinen : buildings from the Balthazar Korab archive / edited by David G. De Long and C. Ford Peatross, 2008, p. 22. Access... More

IBM Manufacturing and Administrative Center, Rochester, Minnesota, 1956-58. Approach

IBM Manufacturing and Administrative Center, Rochester, Minnesota, 195...

Box. no. 3. No. 465. Title and date from Eero Saarinen by De Long and Peatross, 2008. Credit line: Balthazar Korab collection of photographs showing Eero Saarinen architecture, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

Trans World Airlines Terminal, John F. Kennedy (originally Idlewild) Airport, New York, New York, 1956-62. Information desk

Trans World Airlines Terminal, John F. Kennedy (originally Idlewild) A...

Box. no. 3. No. 584. Title and date from Eero Saarinen by De Long and Peatross, 2008. Credit line: Balthazar Korab collection of photographs showing Eero Saarinen architecture, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

General Motors Technical Center, Warren, Michigan, 1945; 1946-56. Design Center

General Motors Technical Center, Warren, Michigan, 1945; 1946-56. Desi...

Box. no. 1. No. 78. Title and date from Eero Saarinen by De Long and Peatross, 2008. Credit line: Balthazar Korab collection of photographs showing Eero Saarinen architecture, Library of Congress, Prints and Ph... More

Miller house, Ontario, Canada, 1950-52. Living area

Miller house, Ontario, Canada, 1950-52. Living area

Box. no. 1. No. 179. Title and date from Eero Saarinen by De Long and Peatross, 2008. Credit line: Balthazar Korab collection of photographs showing Eero Saarinen architecture, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

Eero Saarinen house (Bloomfield Hills, Michigan). Interior

Eero Saarinen house (Bloomfield Hills, Michigan). Interior

Public domain photograph of living room, apartment, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Floor plan for the Miller house, Columbus, Indiana, designed by Eero Saarinen & Assoc.]

[Floor plan for the Miller house, Columbus, Indiana, designed by Eero ...

Illus. in: The Architectural forum, the magazine of building, vol. 109, no. 3. New York : Time Inc., Sept. 1958, p. 129.

[Landscape plan for the Miller house, Columbus, Indiana, designed by Eero Saarinen & Assoc.]

[Landscape plan for the Miller house, Columbus, Indiana, designed by E...

Illus. in: The Architectural forum, the magazine of building, vol. 109, no. 3. New York : Time Inc., Sept. 1958, p. 131.

Trans World Airlines Flight Center, John F. Kennedy International Airport, Jamaica Bay, Queens (subdivision), Queens County, NY

Trans World Airlines Flight Center, John F. Kennedy International Airp...

Significance: The TWA Flight Center at JFK Airport, opened in May 1962, is a significant example of mid-twentieth-century modern architecture, engineering, and airline terminal planning. A masterpiece of expres... More

Saint Louis Gateway Arch (originally Jefferson National Expansion Memorial), Saint Louis, Missouri, 1947-65; dedicated, 1968. Model with Eero Saarinen

Saint Louis Gateway Arch (originally Jefferson National Expansion Memo...

Public domain scan of architectural drawing, architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

First Christian Church, designed by Eliel Saarinen, Columbus, Indiana

First Christian Church, designed by Eliel Saarinen, Columbus, Indiana

J. Irwin Miller promoted architecture in Columbus through a program in which the Cummins company paid the architects' fee, provided clients selected a firm from a list compiled by Miller. The program was initia... More

North Christian Church, designed by Eero Saarinen, Columbus, Indiana

North Christian Church, designed by Eero Saarinen, Columbus, Indiana

The church was the last building designed by the younger Saarinen. The sloping roof of this six-sided building blends with the landscaped earth-mound which surrounds it. This low line accentuates the slender 19... More

The Milwaukee County War Memorial Center in Milwaukee, Wisconsin

The Milwaukee County War Memorial Center in Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The building was designed by modernist architect Eero Saarinen and was dedicated on Veterans Day in 1957. Credit line: Photographs in ... More

Books and family heirlooms, many collected on the family's overseas trips, at the Miller House, considered a modern-architecure gem designed by Finnish-American architect Eero Saarinen and completed in 1957 in Columbus, a south-central Indiana city that has become a destination for fine art and architecture lovers

Books and family heirlooms, many collected on the family's overseas tr...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. It earned that reputation after this house's owners, industrialist and philanthropist J. Irwin Miller and his wife, Xenia Simons Mille... More

Part of the living room and recessed "conversation pit," as the family called it, at the Miller House, considered a modern-architecure gem designed by Finnish-American architect Eero Saarinen and completed in 1957 in Columbus, a south-central Indiana city that has become a destination for fine art and architecture lovers

Part of the living room and recessed "conversation pit," as the family...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. It earned that reputation after this house's owners, industrialist and philanthropist J. Irwin Miller and his wife, Xenia Simons Mille... More

Eames House, 203 Chautauqua Boulevard, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, CA

Eames House, 203 Chautauqua Boulevard, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County...

Significance: The Eames House is significant as an exemplary and influential example of post-World War II modern architecture and for its association with the lives of notable designers and residents Charles an... More

Trans World Airlines Flight Center, John F. Kennedy International Airport, Jamaica Bay, Queens (subdivision), Queens County, NY

Trans World Airlines Flight Center, John F. Kennedy International Airp...

Significance: The TWA Flight Center at JFK Airport, opened in May 1962, is a significant example of mid-twentieth-century modern architecture, engineering, and airline terminal planning. A masterpiece of expres... More

Saarinen office staff: Eero Saarinen (left) and Kevin Roche, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.

Saarinen office staff: Eero Saarinen (left) and Kevin Roche, Bloomfiel...

Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

General Motors Technical Center, Warren, Michigan, 1945; 1946-56. Administration Building stair

General Motors Technical Center, Warren, Michigan, 1945; 1946-56. Admi...

Box. no. 1. No. 115. Title and date from Eero Saarinen by De Long and Peatross, 2008. Credit line: Balthazar Korab collection of photographs showing Eero Saarinen architecture, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

Covered stone veranda at the Miller House, considered a modern-architecure gem designed by Finnish-American architect Eero Saarinen and completed in 1957 in Columbus, a south-central Indiana city that has become a destination for fine art and architecture lovers

Covered stone veranda at the Miller House, considered a modern-archite...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. It earned that reputation after this house's owners, industrialist and philanthropist J. Irwin Miller and his wife, Xenia Simons Mille... More

Part of the kitchen at the Miller House, considered a modern-architecure gem designed by Finnish-American architect Eero Saarinen and completed in 1957 in Columbus, a south-central Indiana city that has become a destination for fine art and architecture lovers

Part of the kitchen at the Miller House, considered a modern-architecu...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. It earned that reputation after this house's owners, industrialist and philanthropist J. Irwin Miller and his wife, Xenia Simons Mille... More

Part of the kitchen at the Miller House, considered a modern-architecure gem designed by Finnish-American architect Eero Saarinen and completed in 1957 in Columbus, a south-central Indiana city that has become a destination for fine art and architecture lovers

Part of the kitchen at the Miller House, considered a modern-architecu...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. It earned that reputation after this house's owners, industrialist and philanthropist J. Irwin Miller and his wife, Xenia Simons Mille... More

Milwaukee Art Museum, War Memorial Center, 700 North Art Museum Drive, Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, WI

Milwaukee Art Museum, War Memorial Center, 700 North Art Museum Drive,...

Survey number: HABS WI-370-A Building/structure dates: 1957 Initial Construction

General Motors Technical Center, Warren, Michigan, 1945; 1946-56. Model of Administration Building stair

General Motors Technical Center, Warren, Michigan, 1945; 1946-56. Mode...

Box. no. 1. No. 114. Title and date from Eero Saarinen by De Long and Peatross, 2008. Credit line: Balthazar Korab collection of photographs showing Eero Saarinen architecture, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

Covered stone veranda at the Miller House, considered a modern-architecure gem designed by Finnish-American architect Eero Saarinen and completed in 1957 in Columbus, a south-central Indiana city that has become a destination for fine art and architecture lovers

Covered stone veranda at the Miller House, considered a modern-archite...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. It earned that reputation after this house's owners, industrialist and philanthropist J. Irwin Miller and his wife, Xenia Simons Mille... More

Miller house, Columbus, Indiana, 1953-57. Terrace

Miller house, Columbus, Indiana, 1953-57. Terrace

Box. no. 2. No. 294. Title and date from Eero Saarinen by De Long and Peatross, 2008. Credit line: Balthazar Korab collection of photographs showing Eero Saarinen architecture, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

Part of the kitchen at the Miller House, considered a modern-architecure gem designed by Finnish-American architect Eero Saarinen and completed in 1957 in Columbus, a south-central Indiana city that has become a destination for fine art and architecture lovers

Part of the kitchen at the Miller House, considered a modern-architecu...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. It earned that reputation after this house's owners, industrialist and philanthropist J. Irwin Miller and his wife, Xenia Simons Mille... More

[University of Chicago Law School, Chicago, Illinois. Site plan]

[University of Chicago Law School, Chicago, Illinois. Site plan]

Illustration in The Law School Record (University of Chicago), vol. 5, no. 2, p. 6. Gift; Kevin Roche; 2007. Published in: Eero Saarinen : buildings from the Balthazar Korab archive / edited by David G. De Lon... More

[University of Chicago Law School, Chicago, Illinois. Typical floor plans]

[University of Chicago Law School, Chicago, Illinois. Typical floor pl...

Illustration in The Law School Record (University of Chicago), vol. 5, no. 2, p. 9. Gift; Kevin Roche; 2007. Published in: Eero Saarinen : buildings from the Balthazar Korab archive / edited by David G. De Lon... More

IBM, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York, 1956-61. Exterior

IBM, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York, 195...

Box. no. 3. No. 498. Title and date from Eero Saarinen by De Long and Peatross, 2008. Credit line: Balthazar Korab collection of photographs showing Eero Saarinen architecture, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

Chandelier at the Miller House, considered a modern-architecure gem designed by Finnish-American architect Eero Saarinen and completed in 1957 in Columbus, a south-central Indiana city that has become a destination for fine art and architecture lovers

Chandelier at the Miller House, considered a modern-architecure gem de...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. It earned that reputation after this house's owners, industrialist and philanthropist J. Irwin Miller and his wife, Xenia Simons Mille... More

The recessed "conversation pit," as the family called it, at the Miller House, considered a modern-architecure gem designed by Finnish-American architect Eero Saarinen and completed in 1957 in Columbus, a south-central Indiana city that has become a destination for fine art and architecture lovers

The recessed "conversation pit," as the family called it, at the Mille...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. It earned that reputation after this house's owners, industrialist and philanthropist J. Irwin Miller and his wife, Xenia Simons Mille... More

Saarinen office staff (before hirsute enhancement; Eero Saarinen, upper right; Kevin Roche, lower right), Bloomfield Hills, Michigan

Saarinen office staff (before hirsute enhancement; Eero Saarinen, uppe...

Public domain photograph of water reservoir, lake, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Eero Saarinen - Public domain portrait photograph

Eero Saarinen - Public domain portrait photograph

Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Saarinen office staff: Don Pettit, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.

Saarinen office staff: Don Pettit, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.

Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Eames House, 203 Chautauqua Boulevard, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, CA

Eames House, 203 Chautauqua Boulevard, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County...

Significance: The Eames House is significant as an exemplary and influential example of post-World War II modern architecture and for its association with the lives of notable designers and residents Charles an... More

General Motors Technical Center, Warren, Michigan, 1945; 1946-56. Design Center interior with stair in foreground

General Motors Technical Center, Warren, Michigan, 1945; 1946-56. Desi...

Box. no. 1. No. 108. Title and date from Eero Saarinen by De Long and Peatross, 2008. Credit line: Balthazar Korab collection of photographs showing Eero Saarinen architecture, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

General Motors Technical Center, Warren, Michigan, 1945; 1946-56. Exterior

General Motors Technical Center, Warren, Michigan, 1945; 1946-56. Exte...

Box. no. 1. No. 65. Title and date from Eero Saarinen by De Long and Peatross, 2008. Credit line: Balthazar Korab collection of photographs showing Eero Saarinen architecture, Library of Congress, Prints and Ph... More

Eero Saarinen guest house (originally Loja Saarinen house), Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. Exterior

Eero Saarinen guest house (originally Loja Saarinen house), Bloomfield...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a residential building, house, 19th-20th century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[TWA Terminal, John F. Kennedy International Airport, New York, New York. Section through main lobby and section through office wing]

[TWA Terminal, John F. Kennedy International Airport, New York, New Yo...

Gift; Kevin Roche; 2007. Published in: Eero Saarinen : buildings from the Balthazar Korab archive / edited by David G. De Long and C. Ford Peatross, 2008, p. 455. Accession box no. 14, folder 16.

Eames House, 203 Chautauqua Boulevard, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, CA

Eames House, 203 Chautauqua Boulevard, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County...

Significance: The Eames House is significant as an exemplary and influential example of post-World War II modern architecture and for its association with the lives of notable designers and residents Charles an... More

Eero Saarinen and Associates office (Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, 1953)

Eero Saarinen and Associates office (Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, 1953)

Public domain photograph of a hotel building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Miller house, Ontario, Canada, 1950-52. Living area

Miller house, Ontario, Canada, 1950-52. Living area

Box. no. 1. No. 177. Title and date from Eero Saarinen by De Long and Peatross, 2008. Credit line: Balthazar Korab collection of photographs showing Eero Saarinen architecture, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

Concordia Theological Seminary (originally Concordia Senior College), Fort Wayne, Indiana, 1953-58. Chapel exterior

Concordia Theological Seminary (originally Concordia Senior College), ...

Box. no. 2. No. 389. Title and date from Eero Saarinen by De Long and Peatross, 2008. Credit line: Balthazar Korab collection of photographs showing Eero Saarinen architecture, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

Close-up view of the Gateway Arch, the symbolic gateway to the West (although there's a great deal of midwest to go before the west is reached) and the centerpiece of the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial, St. Louis, Missouri

Close-up view of the Gateway Arch, the symbolic gateway to the West (a...

Designed by Finnish American architect Eero Saarenin. Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. T... More

Part of the living room at the Miller House, considered a modern-architecure gem designed by Finnish-American architect Eero Saarinen and completed in 1957 in Columbus, a south-central Indiana city that has become a destination for fine art and architecture lovers

Part of the living room at the Miller House, considered a modern-archi...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. It earned that reputation after this house's owners, industrialist and philanthropist J. Irwin Miller and his wife, Xenia Simons Mille... More

Driveway on the grounds of the Miller House, considered a modern-architecure gem designed by Finnish-American architect Eero Saarinen and completed in 1957 in Columbus, a south-central Indiana city that has become a destination for fine art and architecture lovers

Driveway on the grounds of the Miller House, considered a modern-archi...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. It earned that reputation after this house's owners, industrialist and philanthropist J. Irwin Miller and his wife, Xenia Simons Mille... More

Dining area at the Miller House, considered a modern-architecure gem designed by Finnish-American architect Eero Saarinen and completed in 1957 in Columbus, a south-central Indiana city that has become a destination for fine art and architecture lovers

Dining area at the Miller House, considered a modern-architecure gem d...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. It earned that reputation after this house's owners, industrialist and philanthropist J. Irwin Miller and his wife, Xenia Simons Mille... More

Trans World Airlines Flight Center, John F. Kennedy International Airport, Jamaica Bay, Queens (subdivision), Queens County, NY

Trans World Airlines Flight Center, John F. Kennedy International Airp...

Significance: The TWA Flight Center at JFK Airport, opened in May 1962, is a significant example of mid-twentieth-century modern architecture, engineering, and airline terminal planning. A masterpiece of expres... More

Saarinen office staff: Eero Saarinen (left) and Alan Tunstall, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.

Saarinen office staff: Eero Saarinen (left) and Alan Tunstall, Bloomfi...

Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

General Motors Technical Center, Warren, Michigan, 1945; 1946-56. Fountains

General Motors Technical Center, Warren, Michigan, 1945; 1946-56. Foun...

Box. no. 1. No. 51. Title and date from Eero Saarinen by De Long and Peatross, 2008. Credit line: Balthazar Korab collection of photographs showing Eero Saarinen architecture, Library of Congress, Prints and Ph... More

General Motors Technical Center, Warren, Michigan, 1945; 1946-56. Cafeteria interior

General Motors Technical Center, Warren, Michigan, 1945; 1946-56. Cafe...

Box. no. 1. No. 102. Title and date from Eero Saarinen by De Long and Peatross, 2008. Credit line: Balthazar Korab collection of photographs showing Eero Saarinen architecture, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

General Motors Technical Center, Warren, Michigan, 1945; 1946-56. Fountains

General Motors Technical Center, Warren, Michigan, 1945; 1946-56. Foun...

Box. no. 1. No. 54. Title and date from Eero Saarinen by De Long and Peatross, 2008. Credit line: Balthazar Korab collection of photographs showing Eero Saarinen architecture, Library of Congress, Prints and Ph... More

General Motors Technical Center, Warren, Michigan, 1945; 1946-56. Design Center

General Motors Technical Center, Warren, Michigan, 1945; 1946-56. Desi...

Box. no. 1. No. 76. Title and date from Eero Saarinen by De Long and Peatross, 2008. Credit line: Balthazar Korab collection of photographs showing Eero Saarinen architecture, Library of Congress, Prints and Ph... More

General Motors Technical Center, Warren, Michigan, 1945; 1946-56. Cafeteria

General Motors Technical Center, Warren, Michigan, 1945; 1946-56. Cafe...

Box. no. 1. No. 99. Title and date from Eero Saarinen by De Long and Peatross, 2008. Credit line: Balthazar Korab collection of photographs showing Eero Saarinen architecture, Library of Congress, Prints and Ph... More

General Motors Technical Center, Warren, Michigan, 1945; 1946-56. Aerial view

General Motors Technical Center, Warren, Michigan, 1945; 1946-56. Aeri...

Box. no. 1. No. 19. Title and date from Eero Saarinen by De Long and Peatross, 2008. Credit line: Balthazar Korab collection of photographs showing Eero Saarinen architecture, Library of Congress, Prints and Ph... More

General Motors Technical Center, Warren, Michigan, 1945; 1946-56. Dome

General Motors Technical Center, Warren, Michigan, 1945; 1946-56. Dome

Box. no. 1. No. 28. Title and date from Eero Saarinen by De Long and Peatross, 2008. Credit line: Balthazar Korab collection of photographs showing Eero Saarinen architecture, Library of Congress, Prints and Ph... More

General Motors Technical Center, Warren, Michigan, 1945; 1946-56. Exterior

General Motors Technical Center, Warren, Michigan, 1945; 1946-56. Exte...

Box. no. 1. No. 66. Title and date from Eero Saarinen by De Long and Peatross, 2008. Credit line: Balthazar Korab collection of photographs showing Eero Saarinen architecture, Library of Congress, Prints and Ph... More

Saint Louis Gateway Arch (originally Jefferson National Expansion Memorial), Saint Louis, Missouri, 1947-65; dedicated, 1968. View

Saint Louis Gateway Arch (originally Jefferson National Expansion Memo...

Box. no. 1. No. 140. Title and date from Eero Saarinen by De Long and Peatross, 2008. Credit line: Balthazar Korab collection of photographs showing Eero Saarinen architecture, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

Irwin Union Bank & Trust Company, Columbus, Indiana, 1950-57. Exterior

Irwin Union Bank & Trust Company, Columbus, Indiana, 1950-57. Exterior

Box. no. 2. No. 194. Title and date from Eero Saarinen by De Long and Peatross, 2008. Credit line: Balthazar Korab collection of photographs showing Eero Saarinen architecture, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

Irwin Union Bank & Trust Company, Columbus, Indiana, 1950-57. Interior

Irwin Union Bank & Trust Company, Columbus, Indiana, 1950-57. Interior

Box. no. 2. No. 200. Title and date from Eero Saarinen by De Long and Peatross, 2008. Credit line: Balthazar Korab collection of photographs showing Eero Saarinen architecture, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

Miller house, Columbus, Indiana, 1953-57. Distant view

Miller house, Columbus, Indiana, 1953-57. Distant view

Box. no. 2. No. 291. Title and date from Eero Saarinen by De Long and Peatross, 2008. Credit line: Balthazar Korab collection of photographs showing Eero Saarinen architecture, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

Miller house, Columbus, Indiana, 1953-57. Living area

Miller house, Columbus, Indiana, 1953-57. Living area

Box. no. 2. No. 327. Title and date from Eero Saarinen by De Long and Peatross, 2008. Credit line: Balthazar Korab collection of photographs showing Eero Saarinen architecture, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

Miller house, Columbus, Indiana, 1953-57. Exterior

Miller house, Columbus, Indiana, 1953-57. Exterior

Box. no. 2. No. 296. Title and date from Eero Saarinen by De Long and Peatross, 2008. Credit line: Balthazar Korab collection of photographs showing Eero Saarinen architecture, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

Miller house, Columbus, Indiana, 1953-57. Model of variant fireplace

Miller house, Columbus, Indiana, 1953-57. Model of variant fireplace

Box. no. 2. No. 337. Title and date from Eero Saarinen by De Long and Peatross, 2008. Credit line: Balthazar Korab collection of photographs showing Eero Saarinen architecture, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

Miller house, Columbus, Indiana, 1953-57. Garden

Miller house, Columbus, Indiana, 1953-57. Garden

Box. no. 2. No. 360. Title and date from Eero Saarinen by De Long and Peatross, 2008. Credit line: Balthazar Korab collection of photographs showing Eero Saarinen architecture, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

United States Embassy, London, 1955-60. Exterior

United States Embassy, London, 1955-60. Exterior

Box. no. 2. No. 415. Title and date from Eero Saarinen by De Long and Peatross, 2008. Credit line: Balthazar Korab collection of photographs showing Eero Saarinen architecture, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

Deere & Company Headquarters, Moline, Illinois, 1956-64. Exterior

Deere & Company Headquarters, Moline, Illinois, 1956-64. Exterior

Box. no. 3. No. 614. Title and date from Eero Saarinen by De Long and Peatross, 2008. Credit line: Balthazar Korab collection of photographs showing Eero Saarinen architecture, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

[IBM, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown, New York. Site plan]

[IBM, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown, New York. Site plan]

Gift; Kevin Roche; 2007. Published in: Eero Saarinen : buildings from the Balthazar Korab archive / edited by David G. De Long and C. Ford Peatross, 2008, p. 451. Accession box no. 14, folder 15.

IBM, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York, 1956-61. Model

IBM, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York, 195...

Box. no. 3. No. 505. Title and date from Eero Saarinen by De Long and Peatross, 2008. Credit line: Balthazar Korab collection of photographs showing Eero Saarinen architecture, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

Deere & Company Headquarters, Moline, Illinois, 1956-64. Exterior

Deere & Company Headquarters, Moline, Illinois, 1956-64. Exterior

Box. no. 3. No. 619. Title and date from Eero Saarinen by De Long and Peatross, 2008. Credit line: Balthazar Korab collection of photographs showing Eero Saarinen architecture, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

Trans World Airlines Terminal, John F. Kennedy (originally Idlewild) Airport, New York, New York, 1956-62. Model

Trans World Airlines Terminal, John F. Kennedy (originally Idlewild) A...

Box. no. 3. No. 549. Title and date from Eero Saarinen by De Long and Peatross, 2008. Credit line: Balthazar Korab collection of photographs showing Eero Saarinen architecture, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

Trans World Airlines Terminal, John F. Kennedy (originally Idlewild) Airport, New York, New York, 1956-62. Model

Trans World Airlines Terminal, John F. Kennedy (originally Idlewild) A...

Box. no. 3. No. 548. Title and date from Eero Saarinen by De Long and Peatross, 2008. Credit line: Balthazar Korab collection of photographs showing Eero Saarinen architecture, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

Trans World Airlines Terminal, John F. Kennedy (originally Idlewild) Airport, New York, New York, 1956-62. Interior

Trans World Airlines Terminal, John F. Kennedy (originally Idlewild) A...

Box. no. 3. No. 578. Title and date from Eero Saarinen by De Long and Peatross, 2008. Credit line: Balthazar Korab collection of photographs showing Eero Saarinen architecture, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

IBM, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York, 1956-61. Early model

IBM, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York, 195...

Box. no. 3. No. 500. Title and date from Eero Saarinen by De Long and Peatross, 2008. Credit line: Balthazar Korab collection of photographs showing Eero Saarinen architecture, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

Trans World Airlines Terminal, John F. Kennedy (originally Idlewild) Airport, New York, New York, 1956-62. Construction

Trans World Airlines Terminal, John F. Kennedy (originally Idlewild) A...

Box. no. 3. No. 557. Title and date from Eero Saarinen by De Long and Peatross, 2008. Credit line: Balthazar Korab collection of photographs showing Eero Saarinen architecture, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

Dulles International Airport, Chantilly, Virginia, 1958-63 (Expanded by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, 1998-2000). Interior

Dulles International Airport, Chantilly, Virginia, 1958-63 (Expanded b...

Box. no. 3. No. 761. Title and date from Eero Saarinen by De Long and Peatross, 2008. Credit line: Balthazar Korab collection of photographs showing Eero Saarinen architecture, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

Dulles International Airport, Chantilly, Virginia, 1958-63 (Expanded by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, 1998-2000). Model in construction

Dulles International Airport, Chantilly, Virginia, 1958-63 (Expanded b...

Box. no. 3. No. 683. Title and date from Eero Saarinen by De Long and Peatross, 2008. Credit line: Balthazar Korab collection of photographs showing Eero Saarinen architecture, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

Dulles International Airport, Chantilly, Virginia, 1958-63 (Expanded by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, 1998-2000). Exterior

Dulles International Airport, Chantilly, Virginia, 1958-63 (Expanded b...

Box. no. 3. No. 680. Title and date from Eero Saarinen by De Long and Peatross, 2008. Credit line: Balthazar Korab collection of photographs showing Eero Saarinen architecture, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

Yale University, Samuel F.B. Morse and Ezra Stiles Colleges, New Haven, Connecticut, 1958-62. Exterior

Yale University, Samuel F.B. Morse and Ezra Stiles Colleges, New Haven...

Box. no. 3. No. 679. Title and date from Eero Saarinen by De Long and Peatross, 2008. Credit line: Balthazar Korab collection of photographs showing Eero Saarinen architecture, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

Dulles International Airport, Chantilly, Virginia, 1958-63 (Expanded by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, 1998-2000). Exterior detail

Dulles International Airport, Chantilly, Virginia, 1958-63 (Expanded b...

Box. no. 3. No. 720. Title and date from Eero Saarinen by De Long and Peatross, 2008. Credit line: Balthazar Korab collection of photographs showing Eero Saarinen architecture, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

Yale University, Samuel F.B. Morse and Ezra Stiles Colleges, New Haven, Connecticut, 1958-62. Construction

Yale University, Samuel F.B. Morse and Ezra Stiles Colleges, New Haven...

Box. no. 3. No. 660. Title and date from Eero Saarinen by De Long and Peatross, 2008. Credit line: Balthazar Korab collection of photographs showing Eero Saarinen architecture, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

North Christian Church, Columbus, Indiana, 1959-64. Aerial view

North Christian Church, Columbus, Indiana, 1959-64. Aerial view

Box. no. 3. No. 770. Title and date from Eero Saarinen by De Long and Peatross, 2008. Credit line: Balthazar Korab collection of photographs showing Eero Saarinen architecture, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

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