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Eero Saarinen
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1910-08-20 ) August 20, 1910, Kirkkonummi , Finland
- Died
- September 1, 1961 (1961-09-01) (aged 51), Ann Arbor, Michigan , U.S.
- Alma mater
- Académie de la Grande Chaumière , Yale University
- Occupation
- Architect
- Awards
- AIA Gold Medal (1962)
- Practice
- Associated architectural firm[s]
- Buildings
- See list of works
- Design
- Gateway Arch , General Motors Technical Center , Dulles International Airport Main Terminal , TWA Flight Center , Tulip chair
- Spouses
- Lilian Swann ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1939 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 1954 ) Aline Bernstein , ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1954 )
- Children
- 3, including Eric Saarinen
- Parent s
- Eliel Saarinen , Loja Gesellius
- Relatives
- Pipsan Saarinen Swanson (sister)
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Eero
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Grand Duchy of Finland
- Place of birth
- Kirkkonummi
- Place of death
- Ann Arbor
- Father
- Eliel Saarinen
- Mother
- Loja Saarinen
- Occupation
- designer
- Educated at
- Yale University
- Employer
- Office of Strategic Services
- Languages spoken
- Finnish
- Native language
- Finnish
- Notable work
- Gateway Arch
- Field of work
- architecture
- Movement
- modernism
- Image
- Eero-Saarinen.jpg
- Number of children
- 3
- Work location
- John F. Kennedy International Airport
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- Commons category
- Eero Saarinen
- date of death
- 1961-09-01
- date of birth
- 1910-01-01
- topic's main category
- Category:Eero Saarinen
- manner of death
- natural causes
- member of
- Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts
- archives at
- Archives of American Art
- name in native language
- Eero Saarinen
- has works in the collection
- Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
- described at URL
- arch-pavouk.cz/index.php/architekti/1429-saarinen-eero
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Encyclopedic overview
Eero Saarinen (/ˈeɪroʊ ˈsɑːrɪnən, ˈɛəroʊ -/, Finnish: [ˈeːro ˈsɑːrinen]; August 20, 1910 – September 1, 1961) was a Finnish-American architect and industrial designer. Saarinen's work includes the General Motors Technical Center, the Dulles International Airport Main Terminal, the TWA Flight Center at John F. Kennedy International Airport, the Vivian Beaumont Theater at Lincoln Center, the Gateway Arch, and the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center. During his career, Saarinen was elected a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects and served on the National Institute of Arts and Letters.
Born in Hvitträsk, Finland, he was the son of Finnish architect Eliel Saarinen, and immigrated to the United States as a teenager. Saarinen grew up in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, studying at the Cranbrook Academy of Art, where his father taught. Saarinen became a naturalized citizen of the United States in 1940, a year after marrying the sculptor Lilian Swann, with whom he had two children. After divorcing Swann in 1954, Saarinen married Aline Bernstein Louchheim. In 1961, Saarinen died while undergoing an operation for a brain tumor.
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