Eero Saarinen

The most thorough monograph published to date on Eero Saarinen (1910-61), the Finnish-born, American-trained master of mid-century Modernism \nTraces Saarinen’s life and career from his childhood in Finland to collaboration with his father, architect Eliel Saarinen, to his iconic airport projects of the 1960s \nSaarinen is best known for the sweeping TWA terminal at JFK airport and his association with Cranbrook Academy in Michigan \nDocuments more than 60 buildings and projects, including corporate complexes for General Motors, CBS, IBM and other firms, US embassies in London and Oslo, university campuses, and furniture for Knoll \nQuotes numerous interviews with Saarinen’s colleagues and architecture critics, such as Robert A M Stern, Florence Knoll Bassett and Cesar Pelli, examining how Saarinen was viewed in his own time and today \nExtensive period photography by renowned architectural photographers Ezra Stoller, Balthazar Korab and others, as well as colour photographs, plans and original sketches and drawings