During his long association with the firm, Saarinen designed many important buildings that included the Crow Island School in Winnetka, Illinois, one of the earliest works of Saarinen to receive international acclaim. A few years after graduating, he returned to the United States in 1936 and joined his father’s architecture practice, Saarinen Swansen and Associates. Following the family footsteps, Eero moved to Paris where he studied sculpture at the end of the 1920s, and he then went on to study architecture at Yale University, from which he graduated in 1934. Saarinen was born in Finland on August 20, 1910, to famous architect Eliel Saarinen and textile designer and sculptor Loja Saarinen. Today, Saarinen is considered one of the masters of American 20th-century architecture. He wanted to create buildings that would engage emotionally – that was something different from what was going on with modernism in the 50s. He cared about what images of buildings evoked, what they felt like. His works pushed the established boundaries of modernism and introduced sculptural forms and visual drama unknown in earlier years.
The Finnish-American architect, Eero Saarinen ’s architectural legacy, design philosophies, and thinking were way ahead of his time.
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