Today is the birthday of Finnish-American architect Eero Saarinen born on August 20, 1910. His works have become synonymous with the mid-century modern aesthetic and even if you don’t know him by name ...

Yale U. has completed a two-year, $25-million renovation of Eero Saarinen’s Ingalls Rink. (Michael Marsland, Yale U.) Yale U. has completed a two-year, $25-million renovation of Eero Saarinen’s ...

I was two months shy of my seventh birthday when my family moved to Chantilly, Va., about four miles (as the 747s fly) from the main terminal of Dulles Airport. I used to be able to talk my Dad into ...

The General Motors Technical Center is widely regarded as an icon of midcentury architectural design and has received generous praise as a landmark project since its opening in 1956. Over 60 years ...

Buffalo is lucky to have been graced by the presence of mid-century modern architect Eliel Saarinen, who designed Kleinhans Music Hall, along with his apprentice son, Eero. Similar to how Frank Lloyd ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — Architect Norman Perttula, a onetime protégé of the globally famous Detroit architect Eero Saarinen, designed mid-century modern buildings that have become familiar presences across ...

For centuries, architects chiefly designed buildings. Sure, there was the occasional commission for an obelisk or pyramid, but for the most part what clients wanted was some kind of recognizable ...

On “Eero Saarinen: Shaping the Future” at the Museum of the City of New York. The elegance of the work on view—Saarinen’s sketches, drawings, photographs, and models—must be contrasted with the state ...

The Gateway Arch in St. Louis is a rare case of a modern memorial that is as instantly recognizable as the Washington Monument or the Statue of Liberty. The 630-foot-tall stainless-steel arch is as ...

(For the record, during my decades as an architecture writer, which overlapped with Hagberg’s, no New York Times editor was ever nonchalant about reporters accepting free travel.) There’s a lot about ...

Introduction : Rediscovering Eero Saarinen / David G. De Long -- Buildings : General Motors Technical Center, Warren, Michigan -- Saint Louis Gateway Arch, Saint Louis, Missouri -- Miller House, ...

One of the most attractive attributes of this compact, 54-minute documentary about the modernist architect Eero Saarinen is the quality of the filmmaking. Credit for that goes to Peter Rosen, the show ...