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Saarinen, Eero
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( ´r sä´r n n) (KEY) , 1910–61, Finnish-American architect, son of Eliel Saarinen. Saarinen’s reputation was established with his design of the General Motors Technical Center, Warren, Mich. (1951–55). His innovations are significant, particularly in domical construction. At the Massachusetts Institute of Technology he built in 1955 the circular brick chapel and also the auditorium, notable for its thin-shelled concrete dome. He followed the principles of suspension bridge construction in the David S. Ingalls Hockey Rink at Yale (1958) and created soaring intersecting concrete vaults for the Trans World Airlines Terminal at Kennedy International Airport, New York City. He erected many collegiate buildings, including those at Concordia Senior College, Fort Wayne, Ind.; Vassar; and the Univ. of Chicago. He also designed the American embassies at London and Oslo. Saarinen died before the completion of two of his greatest projects, the Dulles International Airport near Herndon, Va., and two polygonal college buildings at Yale.
See Eero Saarinen On His Work, ed. by A. Saarinen (rev. ed. 1968).
See Eero Saarinen On His Work, ed. by A. Saarinen (rev. ed. 1968).
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