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Eliel Saarinen became a professor in the University of Michigan's Architecture Department. His son, Eero (1910–1961), became one of the most important American architects of the mid-20th century, as one of the leaders of the International style. Saarinen's student Edmund N. Bacon achieved national prominence as Executive Director of the ...
Gesellius, Lindgren, Saarinen was a Finnish architecture firm, founded in Helsinki in 1896 by architects Herman Gesellius, Armas Lindgren and Eliel Saarinen. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] They achieved international recognition with their design for the Finnish pavilion at the Paris World Expo in 1900, designed in the then prevailing Art Nouveau style.
Loja Saarinen started her career in 1928 when she founded one of the most productive weaving departments in the United States at the Cranbrook Educational Community. Saarinen was heavily influenced by Swedish craft tradition. She was one of the first artists to bring Scandinavian design to America.
The Joensuu City Hall (Finnish: Joensuun kaupungintalo) is a brick building in the center of Joensuu, Finland, designed by Eliel Saarinen and completed in 1914, combining styles of Romantic Nationalism and late Art Nouveau. It serves as a center of culture and governance for the city.
Its lasting architectural influence, ironically, is all about what it was not—the vertiginous fusion of historic and modern proposed by the runner-up architect, Eliel Saarinen of Finland.If you ...
Tanglewood Shed in 1938 (with Eliel Saarinen and Joseph Franz), Chamber Music Shed in 1947 (with Eliel Saarinen), Edmund Haws Talbot Orchestra Canopy in 1959: Center Line Defense Housing: Center Line: Michigan: 1941: 1942: With Eliel Saarinen and J. Robert F. Swanson. 477 housing units: Albert and Muriel Wermuth House: Fort Wayne: Indiana: 1941 ...
Frederick Tang Architecture revamps a Dutchess County, New York, home with references to Eliel Saarinen. But first, the “fireplace on steroids” had to go.
In 1896 he founded the architecture firm Gesellius, Lindgren, Saarinen with Armas Lindgren and Eliel Saarinen. [2] [3] [4] The most famous work projected under his own name is the Wuorio House ("Wuorion talo") at Unioninkatu 30, Helsinki. Gesellius designed it from 1908 to 1909, and Lindgren completed it from 1913 to 1914.