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...ades." Among the old masters, Le Corbusier has turned from the '"pure prism" of his youth to an architecture that is pure sculpture. Other architects, each in his own way, are searching for riches the purists would have found intolerable. "Our architecture," said the late Eero Saarinen, "is too humble. It should be prouder, much richer and larger than we see it today...
Faithful to the intentions of Architect Eero Saarinen, who died fortnight ago at 51, his partners will move the offices of Eero Saarinen & Associates from its longtime headquarters in Bloomfield Hills, Mich., to Hamden, Conn., sometime next month. Still on his drawing boards in Bloomfield were the daring, Finnish-born form giver's final designs, among them plans for a 37-story Manhattan headquarters for the Columbia Broadcasting System. "Eero was especially excited about this design," recalled Saarinen Partner John Dinkeloo. "He felt he was going back to the tradition of Louis Sullivan and making a step forward from...
Womb & Wing. The purists were horrified, and Saarinen's work was always to be controversial. In his U.S. embassy in London he attempted to adapt a wholly modern building to the Georgian style...
Grosvenor Square. To many critics, the compromise failed. Nevertheless, there was always in Saarinen's designs-from his famous "womb" chair to the soaring, winged, 6,000-ton concrete roof of his TWA terminal at Idlewild to his new Dulles International Airport at Chantilly, Va., with its moving waiting room-a daring, a willingness to experiment with form that few of his contemporaries had. "An architect must have a combination of sensitivity and crust," he said, and he had both...
Died. Eero Saarinen, 51, bold shaper of modern architecture; of a brain tumor; in Ann Arbor, Mich...