Will look really nice framed! The piece is titled "Riverfront Two", and features the Gateway Arch in St. Louis, designed by architect, Eero Saarinen. Saarinen is now considered one of the masters of American 20th-century architecture. Also in 1940 he became a naturalized citizen of the United States.

This is partly because the Roche and Dinkeloo office has donated its Saarinen archives to Yale University, but also because Saarinen's oeuvre can be said to fit in with present-day concerns about pluralism of styles. Saarinen's father Eliel Saarinen had designed the First Christian Church in Columbus. His mother, Loja Saarinen designed textiles, and his sister Pipsan was a colorist and interior designer. “That was Eero Saarinen's first love, really: sculpture rather than architecture,” Tracy Campbell, author of … He was criticized in his own time—most vociferously by Yale's Vincent Scully—for having no identifiable … In 1940 Eero and his father designed Crow Island School in Winnetka, Illinois, which influenced postwar school design, being a one-story structure generously extended in plan and suitably scaled for primary-grade children. The church building of 1964 was designed by Finnish-American architect Eero Saarinen (1910–1961) and completed in 1964. The building is hexagonal in shape, with a central metal spire that is 192 feet (59 m) high. The piece is signed, dated, titled and numbered in pencil by the artist in the lower border of the paper just below the image (see photo). With her style of criticism, Saarinen sent the message that everyone had a stake in good design, and moreover was something that anyone could engage with and have opinions about. Eero Saarinen was, along with Louis Kahn, one of the two great European emigres who would become titans of midcentury American architecture. A new book focuses on the small-scale projects of the Finnish-American architecture family.

He was the son of architect Eliel Saarinen, who designed the Cranbrook campus. Between 1929 and 1931, starting when he was just nineteen, Saarinen designed some thirty-five pieces of furniture for Kingswood. There has been a surge of interest in Saarinen's work in recent years, including a major exhibition and several books. Before he was a world-renowned architect and furniture designer, Eero Saarinen trained as sculptor, studying at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière from 1930 to 1931. Cummins Inc. Irwin Conference Center, formerly the Irwin Union Bank and Trust., 1954, Columbus, … It's a wonderful example of architecture meeting abstract modernism. Saarinen’s influence was arguably less due to what she said about architecture, her specific ideas and opinions, and more due to how she said it. The Remarkably Intimate Houses Of Father-Son Architects Eliel And Eero Saarinen.