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| Named Person: | Eero Saarinen; Eero Saarinen; Eero Saarinen |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Jayne Merkel |
| ISBN: | 071484277X 9780714842776 |
| OCLC Number: | 57750853 |
| Description: | 256 p. : ill. (some col.), plan ; 30 cm. |
| Contents: | A man of his time -- 1. Son of Eliel; Growing up under the drafting table -- 2. Creating Cranbrook; The Cranbrook schools, Institute of science, and academy of art -- 3. Family business; The education of Eero and the work of Saarinen and Saarinen -- 4. Breaking away; First independent projects and furniture designs -- 5. A break and a breakthrough; The General Motors technical center -- 6. GM progeny; Corporate campuses for IBM, Bell labs, and Deere & Company -- 7. College explosion; Campuses for the modern world at Antioch, Drake, and Brandeis -- 8. The cutting edge on campus; The MIT auditorium and chapel, and the Yale hockey rink -- 9. College buildings and context; Concordia, Chicago, and Morse and Stiles colleges at Yale -- 10. Building the basics in a small midwestern town; A bank, a house, and a church in Columbus, Indiana -- 11. Big ambitions in big cities abroad; American embassies in London and Oslo -- 12. Big ambitions in New York; The Vivian Beaumont repertory theater at Lincoln center and the CBS building -- 13. Symbolizing modernity; The Milwaukee War memorial and the Saint Louis gateway arch -- 14. Taking flight; The Trans world airlines terminal and the Athens and Dulles international airports -- The legacy. |
| Responsibility: | Jayne Merkel. |
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'a fine-looking, well-written, serious book, lavish with photographs and drawings that comprehensively describe each project. The initial chapters about Eliel's work, Finland, and the Saarinen family, are delightful, and the biographical notes about Eero's friends, loves, clients and colleagues make the whole thing warm and human. This new assessment of Saarinen places him in his time, but makes him fresh and relevant to our own.' Building Design, September 2005 'the first comprehensive account of Saarinen's career - beautifully produced. The illustrations include a lot of unfamiliar material, and the thoroughly researched, jargon-free text is a pleasure to read. - Merkel is surely right in saying that in the age of Calatrava, Gehry and computer generated biomorphism, [Saarinen's] work is of renewed interest. - it feels surprisingly contemporary in its love of exuberant form and passion for the particularities of materials and place.' Richard Weston, RIBA (Royal Institute of Architects) Journal, October 2005 'A good book on the work of Eero Saarinen is overdue ... This book helps correct the balance by documenting an extraordinary body of work that was, and still is, inspiring in its exploration of use, form and material. ... handsomely produced ... a welcome addition to a limited record of scholarship on this significant twentieth-century architect.' The Architectural Review, December 2005 '[Saarinen] was one of the generation that rejected the anonymity of International Modernism in favour of something much more personalized. ... he was an early 'signature architect' of the kind we are so familiar with today. ... a much more thorough and interesting monograph than most. ... For a time eclipsed, Saarinen's work now seems very contemporary' Hugh Pearman, World of Interiors, March 2006 Read more...
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