When Eric Saarinen was 12, his father -- celebrated modernist architect Eero Saarinen -- abandoned his first family and took up with a reporter who'd profiled him in the New York Times.

Eric Saarinen spoke straightforwardly about his father being an often-distant figure so much surrounded by notables that famed designer Frank Lloyd Wright sometimes bounced a then-toddler ...

Born on this day, Aug. 20, in 1910, to Finland’s top architect — Eliel Saarinen — Eero grew up surrounded by blueprints and building models. His father’s studio doubled as the family’s ...

Architecture history is filled with father-son duos ... Finnish-born architect Eliel Saarinen and his even more famous son, Eero Saarinen. The Saarinens, who both received the American Institute ...

The film follows Saarinen’s son, Eric, as he visits some of his father’s most iconic works, each of which is remarkably distinct. “Every one of these things looks like it's by a different ...

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.

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 ...

Saarinen might find it oddly familiar that his chairs have eclipsed his architectural achievements: early in his career, he'd struggled against the long shadow cast by his father, Eliel ...

In Columbus, he saw evidence of that generational bond between two of the town's greatest architects: Eliel and Eero Saarinen, father and son, both of whom designed masterpieces for the city.

from his early partnership in suburban Detroit with his father, a Modernist who emigrated to America. Saarinen made a name for himself, however, as the United States did the same in becoming a ...