Eero Saarinen on His Work [Hardcover]

Eero Saarinen (Author), A.B. Saarinen (Editor)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 117 pages
• Publisher: Yale University Press; 2nd edition (October 1968)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0300008775
• ISBN-13: 978-0300008777
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,719,020 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars A crown jewel in Saarinen literature, August 19, 2011

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Benjamin Foti "gropius admierer" - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Eero Saarinen on His Work (Hardcover)

Of all the literature out there on the life and and work of Eero Saarinen, this one stands out the most. Not just for its beautiful, black-and-white illustrations of individual buildings, but because of the exceptional nature of the text. After Saarinen's death, his widow, Aline B. Saarinen (architecture critic, New York Times), compiled Saarinen's own statements in this volume in 1962. She believed that his own words would provide a more intimate wondow into his own creative processes. She has done this very well. Each of the 16 buildings shown in this book contains vivid descriptions from Saarinen's various interviews, writings, articles and lectures. These are quite detailed, and reveal much about the architect's as well as the client's point of view. One highlight to this book is at the forward with Saarinen's statements about architecture in general and himself. While some of the completion dates on the buildings in this book tend to be off by a year or more ( 10 were in various stages of completion when it went to press), it nonetheless provides a portrait of a fantastic, but short lived career straight from the horse's mouth - a real treat, and a must for any Saarinen or modern architecture enthusiast.

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4.0 out of 5 stars 16 works, fully illustrated in B&W only, February 8, 2006

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Eugene Tenenbaum "reluctant reader" (Bronx, NY USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Eero Saarinen on His Work (Hardcover)

This large, exclusive and fully illustrated in B&W only 4to depicts on 108 yellowish and thick pages:
Columbia Broadcasting System Headquarters, New York, N. Y. 1960-1964.
Jefferson National Expansion Memorial, St. Louis, Missouri, 1947-1948; 1959-1964.
General Motors Technical Center, Warren, Michigan, 1948 to 1956.
M.I.T. Auditorium and Chapel, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1950-1955.
Milwaukee War Memorial, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1953-1957.
Concordia Senior College, Fort Wayne, Indiana, 1953-1958.
U.S. Embassy Chancellery, London, England, 1955; 1956-1960.
U.S. Embassy Chancellery, Oslo, Norway, 1955-1960.
Ingalls Rink, New Haven, Connecticut, 1953-1959.
Trans World Airlines, Idlewild, New York, N. Y., 1956-1962.
Furniture Design, 1947 to 1958.
Thomas J. Watson Research Center, IBM, Yorktown, N. Y., 1957 -1961.
Deere & Company Headquarters, Moline, Illinois, 1957-1963.
Ezra Stiles College at Yale University, New Haven, Conn., 1958-1962.
North Christian Church, Columbus, Indiana, 1959-1963.
International Airport for Washington D. C., Chantilly, Virginia, 1958-1962.