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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: 1962
Born: August 20, 1910;
Kirkkonummi, Finland
Died: 1961;
Ann Arbor,Michigan
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Always design a thing by considering its next larger context—a chair in a room, a room in a house, a house in an environment, an environment in a city plan.
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• 1966: Gateway Arch, St. Louis, Mo.
• 1964: North Christian Church, Columbus, Ind.
• 1963: John Deere World Headquarters, Moline, Ill.
• 1962: Washington Dulles International Airport Terminal,
Sterling, Va.
• 1962: TWA Terminal, JFK International Airport, New
York
• 1960: American Embassy, London
• 1958: David S. Ingalls Hockey Rink, Yale University, New
Haven, Conn.
• 1957: General Motors Technical Center, Warren, Mich.
• 1955: Kresge Auditorium and MIT Chapel, Cambridge,
Mass.
• 1950: Bell Labs, Holmdel, N.J.
• 1939: Smithsonian Art Gallery, Washington, D.C.
Biography
Eero Saarinen, the son of a well-known architect, Eliel
Saarinen, and an artist, Loja Saarinen, worked as a sculptor,
photographer, and architectural model maker. This artistic
environment profoundly influenced him, and he became one of the
leading arcithects of the 20th century in his own right and famous
for his sweeping, arching structural curves.
In 1923 Eero moved to the United States and settled near Detroit,
Mich. He studied first with his father at the Cranbrook Institute
of Architecture and Design, where Eliel was the administrator. In
1929-1930, he studied sculpture in Paris and then went to Yale
University in Connecticut to study architecture. He graduated with
a BArch in 1934, and following that he traveled for two years
through Europe on a scholarship.
In 1936 Eero returned to Cranbrook to teach design and to join his
father’s architecture firm, where he worked until Eliel’s
death in 1950.
From 1937 to 1940, Eero collaborated with Charles Eames on a series
of furniture designs that were highlighted at the Museum of Modern
Art’s 1940 Organic Design in Home Furnishings competition. He
is probably best known for the1962 TWA terminal at John F. Kennedy
Airport in New York, which reflects his highly recognizable
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