Eliel Saarinen Architect, Buildings, America, Helsinki, American Projects, Finland

Eliel Saarinen, United States of America : Information

20th Century Architecture Practice : Finnish National Romanticism

Eliel Saarinen Architect - Practice Information

Gottlieb Eliel Saarinen RIBA Gold Medal Winner 1950

Eliel Saarinen, architect
1873-1950
Eliel was born Rantasalmi, Finland
died Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, United States

Eero Saarinen married Louise (Loja) Gesellius (younger sister of Herman Gesellius) in 1904. They had a daughter Eva-Lisa (Pipsan) in 1905 and a son Eero in 1910.

Eliel Saarinen moved with his family to the United States of America in 1923.

Eliel Saarinen became Cranbrook Academy of Art president in 1932

Education
Helsinki University of Technology

Career
Gesellius, Lindgren, and Saarinen
1896-1905
partner with Herman Gesellius and Armas Lindgren

Finnish Pavilion - World Fair
1900

Munksnäs-Haga project, Finland
1910-15

Helsinki City Plan, Finland
1917-18

Tribune Tower competition entry, Chicago, Illinois, USA
2nd place

Gulf Building in Houston, Texas, USA - Tribune Tower design
1929

Cranbrook Educational Community campus, USA
1925-

Teaching
University of Michigan - visiting professor
1924-

Cranbrook Educational Community campus
1925-

University of Michigan's Architecture Department - professor
-

New York Architects

Eliel Saarinen : Finnish Architect

Finnish Buildings

American Buildings

picture © Andy Ryans

Eero Saarinen - son of Eliel

Related designers: Ray & Charles Eames

Modern Architects

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