Among those to receive the telegram of congratulations was
Eliel Saarinen, a Finnish immigrant who was awaiting the news in his office.
She was a protege of the German-American architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and
Eliel Saarinen, the Finnish architect and teacher and the father of the architect Eero Saarinen.
Saarinen House: Synthesis and Resistance in
Eliel Saarinen's Cranbrook Home.
His early works--similarly clad with ceramics--bear the marks of that enthusiasm, blended with the Byzantine, brick Romanticism of architects such as
Eliel Saarinen, Hendrik Berlage, and even Louis Sullivan --but then they morphed into something else.
For art and design enthusiasts, a must-stop is the campus of his alma mater, Cranbrook Academy of Art, designed by the Finnish architect
Eliel Saarinen. "It was a remarkable period of architecture, a mixture of Arts and Crafts, Prairie style, and Finnish Romanticism," he says.
--37 metu Eero Saarinen, pirma karta tapes zinomas ne del savo tevo
Eliel Saarinen, bet del pergalingo garsiosios St Louis arkos projekto 1947-1948 m.
Money was raised and well-known architect
Eliel Saarinen was tasked as the designer.
The development's layout bore some resemblance to town plans that
Eliel Saarinen had developed in Finland during World War I.
His observations most likely referenced Hood and Howells's executed building of 1925, but Sullivan's influence on
Eliel Saarinen's second prize entry design, also widely published, should be noted.
In 1942 Miller and his family commissioned a new church for their congregation from the Finnish architect
Eliel Saarinen. The result, the First Church of Christ, was one of the first modernist churches in the country.
So, one might imagine, that Klinker, Designerin-Residence at the renowned Crankbrook Academy of Art (first president and the man who set the course for this institution:
Eliel Saarinen, the father of Eero), would simply spend a whole lot of time looking at offices and home interiors and determining what would be an appropriate melding of the two.
Eliel Saarinen - Finnish architect and city planner who moved to the United States in 1923; father of Eero Saarinen (1873-1950)