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Eliel Saarinen
b. Rantasalmi, Finland, 1873;
d. Michigan, 1950.
Eliel Saarinen is a Finnish famous architect who, by preserving a rigour from Art Nouveau and never quite succumbing to the full sentiment, produced exacting structures and restraint ? especially at Cranbrook Academy of Art, Michigan ? which can be seen to pre-empt many of the concerns of [...]

In a period of developing modern architecture in America, Eero Saarinen became the architect’s architect. He went to the USA in 1923 with his father, Eliel Saarinen, whose practice he joined in 1937 after study in Paris and at Yale University. Saarinen’s remarkable range and his instinctive use of colour, form and material are best [...]