Eero Saarinen on His Work

1964 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 286
Author(s):  
Remy G. Saisselin ◽  
Aline B. Saarinen
Keyword(s):  
Eero Saarinen

Saarinen, Eero (1910--1961)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Modern Architecture ◽  
Furniture Design ◽  
Eero Saarinen ◽  
Post War

Eero Saarinen was the son of influential Finnish architect Eliel Saarinen and followed his father into the architectural profession. In his own right, he pioneered a fluid approach to modern architecture and furniture design in the post-war period. Saarinen extended the modernist vocabulary with flowing curves, interpenetrating spaces, and biomorphic forms, earning a reputation as a ‘structural expressionist’. His architectural works display variety and structural experimentation, with parabolic curves in steel or concrete, while his furniture design exploits the properties of plastic to create organic shapes and saturated colours.

5. Light and air

2018 ◽  
pp. 112-137
Author(s):  
Adam Sharr
Keyword(s):  
Air Conditioning ◽  
External Wall ◽  
Eero Saarinen ◽  
Floor Area ◽  
Geodesic Domes ◽  
Buckminster Fuller ◽  
Prefabricated Houses ◽  
Research And Design

The development of air-conditioning and fluorescent tubes meant that decent lighting and ventilation could be provided artificially rather than naturally. Accommodation could then be placed further from windows, enabling buildings to become deeper in plan. This made buildings cheaper, because the amount of external wall—the most expensive part—could be reduced in relation to the overall floor area. ‘Light and air’ explains how General Motor’s research and design campus in Michigan, designed by Eero Saarinen, was an early example of their integration. It also highlights the work of inventor, author, and ‘futurologist’ Richard Buckminster Fuller, and his designs for prefabricated houses and geodesic domes.

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