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Eero Saarinen

Hugh Hardy: Theater of Architecture

J. Michael Welton | Posted 05.01.2013 | Arts
Read More: Architecture, Theater, Times Square, Broadway, Radio City Music Hall, Hugh-Hardy-h3-Hardy-Collaboration-Architecture, Eero Saarinen, Wallace Harrison, Raymond Hood, National Baseball Museum, Edward Durell Stone, Vivian Beaumont Theater, Jo Mielziner, Cooperstown, Dulles, Cbs, Arts News
J. Michael Welton

There's little wonder that Hugh Hardy's new book covers such a diverse mix of projects. The architect studied at Princeton in the 1950s, then worked...

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Carrying on at L.A.'s A&D Museum

J. Michael Welton | Posted 04.17.2013 | Arts
Read More: Wilshire Boulevard, Gensler, Ray Kappe, Michael Rotondi, Eero Saarinen, Richard Neutra, Steven Ehrlich, Charles and Ray Eames, Fentress Architects, Art & Design Museum, Museum Row, April Greiman, Los Angeles, Bradbury Building, Arts News
J. Michael Welton

For a museum that's moved four times in 12 years, life really is about the journey and not the destination. So the Architecture + Design Museum in Lo...

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Dan Kiley: A great yet little known Modernist

Charles A. Birnbaum | Posted 04.12.2013 | Arts
Read More: Indianapolis, John F. Kennedy Library, Oakland Museum, Oakland-California, Historic Preservation, Harvard, Landscape Architecture, Frederick Law Olmsted, Miller House and Garden, Kansas City, Dan Kiley, New Yorker, J. Irwin Miller, Chicago, Laurie Olin, Landscape Design, Columbus-Indiana, Gardening, Dallas, Boston Architectural College, Boston, Art Institute of Chicago, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Andre Le Notre, Modernism, US Air Force Academy, Vermont, Architecture, Lincoln Center, Peter Girard, Eero Saarinen, Peter Walker, Gardening and Landscapes, Dallas Museum of Art, Arts News
Charles A. Birnbaum

In his later years, you could find Dan Kiley with his wild hair and pants hiked up to his waist always brimming with opinions and ideas - or as the ce...

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Why Modern Airports Have to Change

Peter Mandel | Posted 04.03.2013 | Travel
Read More: Paddington Station, 1960s, Airports, Kennedy Airport, Suits, Airport Security, Tailfins, Denver International Airport, 1950s, JetBlue's Terminal 5, Encounter Restaurant, Chain Stores, Trains, Astronauts, Architects, Jfk, Lax, Baggage, Ocean Liners, Bars, Los Angeles International Airport, Boeing 767, New York's Pier 88, Jets, Flights, Souvenirs, Terror, Eero Saarinen, Airline Pilots, Snacks, Jetblue, Spaceships, Twa, Airport Design, The Future, Travel News
Peter Mandel

The fact is that the everyday-ness of today's airports is exactly the opposite of what we flyers need. Don't wall us off, you builders, from where we are and what we are about to do. We may be frightened but we are not dumb.

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Happy Birthday, Eero and Eliel Saarinen!

Posted 08.20.2012 | Arts
Read More: Finnish Architects, Art News, St. Louis Architecture, Eero Saarinen, Saarinen Architect, Eliel-Saarinen, Finnish-Artist, 20th Century Architecture, Artist Birthdays, Art Nouveau, Slideexpand, Gateway Arch, Eero and Eliel Saarinen, Finnish-American Architects, Video, Arts News

Today is the birthday of iconic father and son architecture duo Eliel and Eero Saarinen. Representing two generations of Finnish-American artists, the...

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Milwaukee Art Museum Fights for Custody of Saarinen-Designed Building Amid Proposed $15-Million Revamp

ARTINFO | Posted 07.16.2012 | Arts
Read More: Architecture, Eero Saarinen, Santiago Calatrava, Milwaukee County War Memorial, BLOUIN ARTINFO, Milwaukee Art Museum, Arts News
ARTINFO

The Milwaukee Art Museum and Milwaukee County War Memorial, a Midwestern complex by two master architects of their respective times -- Santiago Calatr...

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Dwell Magazine's Top 10 Best Homes In America

Posted 11.24.2011 | Arts
Read More: American-Homes, Modernism, Eero Saarinen, American Homeowners, Architecture, Le Corbusier, Homeowners, Modern Architecture, American Architecture, Functionality, Real Estate, Arts News

The editors at Dwell sifted through the hundreds of homes featured over the past ten years to create their new special issue, Best Homes in America. ...

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PHOTOS: Architecture For The City Bird

Jaime Rojo & Steven Harrington | Posted 12.29.2011 | Arts
Read More: Mies Van Der Rohe, Brooklyn, Dwelling Units, Daniel Libeskind, Xam Bot, Urban Ornithologist, Gustav Klimt, Street Art, Feeding Units, Street Artist, Steven P. Harrington, Humorist, Designer, Graff Writer, Engineer, Victor Horta, Social Activist, Biomimicry, Archtecture, Santiago Calatrava, William McDonough, Environmentalism, Louis Sullivan, Frank Lloyd Wright, Jaime Rojo, Social Activism, New York City, Architect, Eero Saarinen, Le Corbusier, Art in the Streets, Non-Dwelling Units, Razzel Dazzel, Environmentalist, Xam, X Charles & Ray Eammes, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Xam-Bot, Arts News
Jaime Rojo & Steven Harrington

Architect to the urban aviary set, Street Artist XAM is one rare bird. Averaging one per week over the last year, the California born former graffiti ...

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Paul Needham

Miller House: A House Museum That's Still A Home

HuffingtonPost.com | Paul Needham | Posted 12.27.2011 | Home
Read More: Columbus, Eero Saarinen, Patch Road Trip, Columbus Indiana, Indianapolis Museum of Art, J. Irwin Miller, Architecture, Miller House, Irwin Miller, Eero Saarinen Miller House, Miller House and Garden, Home News

COLUMBUS, Ind. -- When the Indianapolis Museum of Art announced a deal in 2008 to acquire the Eero Saarinen-designed Miller House and open it to the p...

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An Architect's Protest Against the Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street

Harris Silver | Posted 12.14.2011 | DC
Read More: Infrastructure, Occupy Wall Street Protest, Eero Saarinen, Occupy Wall Street Protests, Occupy Wall Street, Sci-Arc, Architecture, Washington DC, Harris Silver, Tea Party, #Occupywallstreet, DC News
Harris Silver

We don't have to agree on everything but at least we can agree that government is indispensable in providing the infrastructure that allows us to lead our lives productively.

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Former TWA Terminal To Become A Hotel

Posted 05.25.2011 | Travel
Read More: Eero Saarinen Twa, Hotels, Twa Building, JFK Airport, Poll, Eero-Saarinen, Architecture, Jfk Twa Building, Travel News

The iconic curving building that was once the home to TWA at New York's JFK airport might be getting a second life in the form of a boutique hotel, ac...

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WATCH: ARCHITECTURE: Monument To The Dream, The Making Of The Gateway Arch

Posted 05.25.2011 | Arts
Read More: Art, Stainless Steel, Eero Saarinen, St. Louis, Making Of, Charles Guggenheim, Monument, Monument to the Dream, Documentary, Civil Engineering, Jefferson National Expansion Memorial Arch, Gateway Arch, Video, Arts News

(From: Phaidon Agenda) Charles Guggenheim's film Monument to the Dream captures the story of construction of the Jefferson National Expansion Memori...

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PHOTOS: $14 Million Eames and Saarninen Entenza House: Case Study No. 9

Anna Almendrala | Posted 05.25.2011 | Los Angeles
Read More: La Real Estate, Slidepollajax, Real Estate, Eero-Saarinen, Charles Eames, Los Angeles News

Via Curbed LA: The last time this house was on the market in 1991, it sold for $1.6 million. Now the asking price is a cool $14 million for the Charle...

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Culture Zohn: Eero Saarinen Shaped the Future

Patricia Zohn | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York
Read More: General Motors, Eero-Saarinen, Finland, Cesar Pelli, John Deere, Robert Venturi, Kevin Roche, Irwin Miiller, Yale School of Architecture, Twa, New York News
Patricia Zohn

2010-01-22-saarinen.jpg This is the conversation about architecture of the 2st Century. What counts most? Your fanny or your fancy?

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University Of Chicago Completes Renovation Of Modernist Law School Library

The Wall Street Journal | Joel Henning | Posted 05.25.2011 | Chicago
Read More: University of Chicago Law School, Chicago Architecture, U of C Law Library, University of Chicago Law Library, U of C Law School, Eero Saarinen, UChicago Libraries, University of Chicago Libraries, Chicago News

The University of Chicago Law School is clearly one of the most competitive in the country. But its cluster of buildings designed by the Modernist arc...

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