Eero Saarinen - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0714865923 ISBN 13: 9780714865928

Verlag: Phaidon, 2014

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Eero Saarinen was one of the worldŽs most celebrated architects at the time of his tragic death at the age of 51. He designed and built more than thirty-five buildings in his lifetime and collaborated on thirty more with his father - the renowned architec

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"Merkel's handsome volume presents the first truly comprehensive survey, and seeks to demonstrate how Saarinen could be `mainstream and avante-garde at the same time."-New Yorker

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For more than half a century people have marveled at the sweeping forms of the Trans World Airlines terminal at John F. Kennedy Airport in New York, lined up to enter the St. Louis Gateway Arch, and admired the mid-century modern lines of Knoll's Womb and Tulip chairs. Yet few outside the architecture profession can name the designer of these wide-ranging projects: the Finnish-American architect Eero Saarinen (1910-1961). Saarinen made the cover of TIME magazine in 1956, heralded as a key practitioner of postwar modernism. He counted among his clients several of the world's most powerful corporations and educational institutions (among them General Motors, IBM, Yale University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology), and pioneered the development of new materials and building technologies. Yet in the decades following his death, interest in his work waned and much of his archive became difficult to access This highly anticipated monograph is the first major publication on Eero Saarinen since the early 1960s and fills a significant gap in Saarinen scholarship. Written in an accessible, journalistic style, it will be of interest to architects and students as well as general readers interested in the significant figures of twentieth-century modernism

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• Verlag: Phaidon
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0714865923
• ISBN 13: 9780714865928
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 256