Eliel Saarinen
Gottlieb Eliel Saarinen (August 20th 1873, Rantasalmi, Finland - July 1st 1950, Cranbrook, Michigan, the United States) was a Finnish architect who was famous for his construction in Art nouveau at the beginning of the XXe century.
Eliel Saarinen emigrated in the United States in 1923 after having obtained the second place with the contest of architecture of the Tribune Tower with Chicago.
In 1925 George Gough Booth required of him to draw the campus of the Cranbrook Kingswood School, which was to be the American equivalent of the school of the Bauhaus in Germany. Saarinen there exempted its teaching and became the president of the Cranbrook Academy off Art in 1932. Ray Eames and Charles Eames was his students and collaborators.
He became professor with the Université of Michigan, in the department of architecture.
His/her son, Eero Saarinen (1910 - 1961), was also an great architect and one of the leaders of the international Style.
Some works
- House of the World Fair of Paris 1900
- National museum of Finland to Helsinki 1902-1911
- Station of Helsinki 1904-1911
- Station of Vyborg 1904-1913
- First Christian Church, Columbus, Indiana
- Kleinhans Music Hall, Buffalo, drawn in collaboration with his/her son Eero Saarinen
- Original Wing Of the Monks Art Center to Of the Monks, Iowa 1945-1948
- the Cranbrook Educational Community with Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.
- the church Lutheran of Mineapolis, Minnesota, 1949.
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