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The AIA gratefully
acknowledges the
following sponsors
of our 150th Anniversary
celebration:
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Founders Circle:
$1,000,000:
McGraw-Hill
Construction,
Official Media
Sponsor
Autodesk,
Official Software
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Year Awarded: 1947
Born: August 20, 1873;
Rantasalmi, Finland
Died: 1950;
Cranbrook,Michigan
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• 1949: Christ Church Lutheran, Minneapolis, Minn.
• 1942: First Christian Church, Columbus, Ind.
• 1940: Crow Island School, Winnetka, Ill. (recipient of the
AIA Twenty-five Year Award, 1971)
• 1926-1941: Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills,
Mich.
• 1919: Finnish National Museum, Helsinki
• 1913: Vyborg Railway Station, Russia
• 1911: Helsinki Railway Station
• 1903: Olofsborg house, Helsinki
• 1902: Hvitträsk, Helsinki
• 1901: Pohjola Insurance Building, Helsinki
• 1900: Finnish Pavilion, 1900 World’s Fair, Paris
Biography
Eliel Saarinen studied architecture at Helsinki Polytechnic. In
1896 he opened an office with two friends from school, Herman
Gesellius and Armas Lindgren. In 1923 he moved to the United States
after winning second place in a competition for the Tribune Tower
design in Chicago. He taught at the University of Michigan during
the school year 1924-1925.
In 1925, at the request of George Booth, a Detroit newspaperman,
Saarinen began the design of the campus of the Cranbrook Academy of
Art, in Bloomfield Hills, Mich. Saarinen taught at Cranbrook and
served as its president in 1932. In the mid-1930s, Saarinen
practiced architecture with his son Eero, who became his partner in
1937.
Besides his designs for Cranbrook, Eliel Saarinen is known for his
buildings at Bloomfield Hills and for churches he designed in
Columbus, Minneapolis, and Chicago. He also designed the Art Center
at Des Moines in Iowa.
Saarinen received the AIA Gold Medal on April 30, 1947, at the
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