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The adult offspring of famous architects share what it was like to use their fathers’ buildings as playgrounds.
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Photograph by Brad Ziegler When your last name is Saarinen and your father (Eero) and grandfather (Eliel) were internationally renowned architects who helped usher in the modernist movement, it’s ...
At the top of that Rolodex was Eero Saarinen. Knoll was a mentee of Saarinen’s father, the architect Eliel Saarinen, so she and Eero were “almost siblings” who “grew up together,” says Auscherman. “I ...
Miller, a member of the church, helped convince his fellow parishioners to hire Eliel Saarinen -- father of Eero – who defied contemporary expectations of what a religious building should look ...
The younger Saarinen's relationship with his father's legacy was a complicated one because Eero abandoned his family to marry his second wife, who proved more supportive of his work.
The Tribune Tower on the right versus what Saarinen proposed, on the left. ““The Finnish-master-edifice… prophesies a time to come,” wrote the father of the skyscraper himself, Louis Sullivan.
Eliel Saarinen's Christ Church Lutheran was the ... But he took on the small project to make sure it was sensitive to his father's design. The small congregation has maintained its architectural ...