From the swooping concrete vaults of the TWA Terminal at JFK Airport to the 630-foot-tall
Gateway Arch in St. Louis, the iconic designs of Eero Saarinen (1910-1961) captured
the aspirations and values of mid-20th-century America. Potent expressions of
national power, these and other Saarinen-designed structures-including the GM
Technical Center, Dulles International Airport, and John Deere headquarters-helped
create the international image of the United States in the decades following World
War II." Eero Saarinen: Shaping the Future " offers a new and wide-ranging
look at the entire scope of Saarinen's career. This is the first book on Saarinen
to incorporate significant research and materials from the newly available archives
of his office, and includes the most complete portfolio of Saarinen's projects
to date-a chronological survey of more than 100 built and unbuilt works, previously
unpublished photographs, plans, and working drawings. Lavishly illustrated, this
major study shows how Saarinen gave his structures an expressive dimension and
helped introduce modern architecture to the mainstream of American practice. In
his search for a richer and more varied modern architecture, Saarinen become one
of the most prolific and controversial practitioners of his time.
Eeva-Liisa
Pelkonen is assistant professor of architecture at Yale University, and the author
of " Achtung Architecture! " Donald Albrecht is an independent curator
and Curator of Architecture and Design at the Museum of the City of New York.
His books include " The Work of Charles and Ray Eames ": " A Legacy
of Invention ". Mark Coir is the director of Archives of Cranbrook Educational
Community in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. Sandy Isenstadt is assistant professor
of art history at Yale University. Reinhold Martin is associate professor at the
Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation, Columbia University.
Will Miller is chairman and CEO of Irwin Financial Corporation in Columbus, Indiana.
Vincent Scully is Sterling Professor Emeritus of the History of Art at Yale University.
Edited
by Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen and Donald Albrecht,
with essays by Mark Coir, Sandy
Isenstadt, Reinhold Martin, Will Miller, Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen, Vincent Scully
Yale
University Press, New Haven and London, 2006
in association with the Finnish
Cultural Institute in New York, the Museum of Finnish Architecture, Helsinki,
the National Building Museum, Washington, D.C.
with the support of the Yale
University School of Architecture
298 mm x 232 mm
382 p.
313 b/w + 160
color illus
ISBN : 9-780972-488729