1953-55 Kresge Auditorium and Chapel at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts.1948-56 General Motors Technical Center (with Eliel Saarinen and architecture firm Smith, Hinchman and Gryllis) in Warren, Michigan.the 1939 Smithsonian Art Gallery, Washington.He won the 1962 gold medal of the American Institute of Architects posthumously and the 1966 American Institute of Architects Honors Award. His Womb Chair and Tulip Chair were included in the 1983-84 ‘Design Since 1945’ exhibition at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Work included in 1982 ‘Space and Environment: Furniture by American Architects’ at the Whitney Museum of American Art in Fairfield County, Connecticut, and 1983-85 ‘Design in America: The Cranbrook Vision 1925-1950’ travelling exhibition. His Tulip chair was included in the 1968 ‘Les Assises du siège contemporian’ exhibition at the Paris Musée des Arts Decoratifs, 1972 ‘Knoll au Louvre’ exhibition (along with other designs) at the Paris Musée des Arts Decoratifs, and 1970 ‘Modern Chairs 1918-1970’ exhibition at the Whitechapel Gallery in London. Eames and Saarinen won the first two prizes at the 1940 Organic Design in Home Furnishings competition and exhibition at the New York Museum of Modern Art. His work was shown with his father and mother at the Detroit Institute of Arts’ 1932 exhibition of their designs. Cesar Pelli, Kevin Roche, and John Dinkeloo all began their careers in Saarinen’s architecture office. In the 1940s, Saarinen worked with Eames in California on various projects, including a sculptural plywood leg splint for the US Navy. It was a direct descendant of the New York Museum of Art prize-winning chair design of 1940. According to his account, Saarinen created it as a modern, overstuffed club-chair model. The Womb Chair became a famous icon of mid-century design. Association with KnollĮero developed the 1946 Grass-hopper upholstered lounge chair, the 1948 fibreglass-shell Womb Chair, and a range of office furniture for the furniture company of Hans and Florence Knoll, beginning his association in 1946. Robert Swanson, Ann Arbor.ġ950 saw him busy with his own office in Ann Arbor. 1941-47, he was a partner to his father and J. In 1936, he returned to his father’s Cranbrook Academy in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, where he taught briefly and, in 1937-41, practised architecture with his father in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Intending to become a sculptor, he designed furniture in 1929 in a joint project with his father and mother for the Kingswood School for girls.Īfter 1934, he worked with Norman Bel Geddes on furniture design. He moved with his father to New York in 1923. Educationġ930, he studied fine art, Paris, and architecture, Yale University, to 1934. Eero Saarinen (1910 – 1961) Finnish architect.
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