MIT is renovating their chapel, designed by Eero Saarinen and dedicated in 1955, using modern building techniques and materials to maintain the original design. Major funding for American Masters — ...

Eero's relationship with Aline Louchheim and their shared professional ambition bloomed. Conquering gravity with Saarinen at the TWA Flight Center At the TWA flight center, Saarinen tried to "express ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. The Aline and Eero Saarinen papers measure approximately 14.2 linear feet and date from 1906 to 1977. The bulk of the collection consists of Aline ...

The General Motors Technical Center is widely regarded as an icon of midcentury architectural design and has received generous praise as a landmark project since its opening in 1956. Over 60 years ...

The TWA Flight Center at New York’s JFK is a living monument to the golden age of air travel. Designed by architectural icon Eero Saarinen in the 1960s, its over the top, neo-futurist design ...

Today is the birthday of Finnish-American architect Eero Saarinen born on August 20, 1910. His works have become synonymous with the mid-century modern aesthetic and even if you don’t know him by name ...

(For the record, during my decades as an architecture writer, which overlapped with Hagberg’s, no New York Times editor was ever nonchalant about reporters accepting free travel.) There’s a lot about ...

The architect Eero Saarinen celebrated his 51st birthday on August 20, 1961, and the next day paid a visit to a doctor, who diagnosed a brain tumor. A week and a half later, he was dead. Had he lived ...

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. In short order ...

Grosvenor Square is being recast for a new era, with the former U.S. Embassy transformed into a Qatari-owned luxury hotel and F.D.R.’s square into a haven of biodiversity. By Mark Landler Bell Works, ...