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...most decisive influence on him at the time was Eero Saarinen, son of the eminent Finnish-American architect Eliel Saarinen. The young Saarinen had just opened his independent practice in Bloomfield Hills, Mich., and Roche and Dinkeloo, an architect who was a genius at structural engineering, joined the firm at about the same time...
...wholly unique or specifically American in spirit." What was this spirit, this ignored Zeitgeist? Tailfins and Empire: "the Hog-stomping Baroque exuberance of American civilization." Those who did serve it were banished as apostates, and become the heroes of Wolfe's narrative: John Portman, Morris Lapidus, Eero Saarinen and Edward Durell Stone...
DIED. John Dinkeloo, 63, architect and engineer who, with associates Kevin Roche and the late Eero Saarinen, designed such celebrated works as the CBS Building in New York City, Dulles International Airport outside Washington, D.C., and the Gateway Arch in St. Louis; of a heart attack; in Fredericksburg...
...writing a piece for Harper's now on architecture," he says, adding, "a sort of Painted World of architecture." He has trouble coming up with any buildings he likes: "I'm a fan of Saarinen," he says, and "a couple of Frank Lloyd Wright works." Then nothing. He has no trouble detailing what the doesn't like. That's the purpose. But architecture can't hold his entire attention at the moment. With an almost embarrassed laugh, he says, "I'm writing a novel of all things." After almost 20 years of wading in the new literary form he helped...
...banks with all-glass walls and an atrium-like interior. The town fathers soon followed Miller's cue, recruiting famous architects to design eleven stunning new schools, including an octagonal brick, glass and wood edifice by Chicago's Harry Weese. As the architectural contagion spread through Columbus, Saarinen fils wrought a hexagonal house of worship for the North Christian Church, which he topped with a soaring spire that is affectionately called "the oil can." In a friendly ecclesiastical rivalry, the First Baptist Church then got Weese to concoct a striking, almost medieval-looking church, with a steeply pitched...