Apartment Therapy - San Francisco (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
Influenced by his work in the offices of legendary designers Eero Saarinen, I.M. Pei and Kevin Roche as well as the movement toward a more expressive form of Modernism in the 1960s, Warren Platner d
The Pioneer Woman (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Here are the answer winners of the Smartypants St. Louis quiz. Great job, everyone! NOTE: Smartypants Chicago Edition will begin at 9:00 am Central Time Friday! 1. Which two notable world events were held in St. Louis in 1904? ANSWER: The World’s Fair and the Olympic Games 2. Who was president of the United States when St. Louis was acquired from the French in the Louisiana Purchase? ANSWER:...
Slow Painting (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
The design for a rink on the Yale University campus. (Photo: Librado Romero/The New York Times) The architect Eero Saarinen was often knocked for being the equivalent of a talented P.R. man. And on the surface at least, few architects did more to glamorize postwar corporate America. General Motors, I.B.M., CBS — all eventually came knocking [...]
Apartment Therapy (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
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New York Post (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
If you've seen JFK's TWA terminal, you know the work of Eero Saarinen. Now's your chance to see a retrospective of the architect and designer's accomplishments without having to take off your shoes and walk through a metal detector. No fly-by-nigh...
io9 (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
Architect Eero Saarinen futurist designs highlight industrial innovation and evoke a sense of sleek confidence. It's the reason his buildings housed captains of American industry, and why his designs... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Eclectica (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
Finnish-born architect and product designer Eero Saarinen was notable for his use of many different architectural materials and methods of construction, never settling on a 'signature' style. However, the flowing concrete lines of the TWA Terminal at New York's JFK airport (and to an extent his Tulip chair for Knoll) are what the majority would associate with him. The works mentioned above are very...
HG Poetics (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
Just 11 days shy of 11 months ago, in mid-December 2008, I began writing this long poem Lanthanum , which originated in an odd dream I had had a few days before, about the Gateway Arch monument in St. Louis (something I'd never seen, nor thought about previously). On Monday, I finished the first book of Lanthanum (1st of a projected 3 volumes). Today I self-published it via Lulu (see previous post)....
Fast Company (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
Design has ramifications beyond the simple form and function--teacups are actors in rituals and environments are where we stage experiences. Turns out the design of my grade school building played a bigger role in my education than I thought. I grew up in Yellow Springs, Ohio, home of Antioch College, where I attended the Antioch School . Arthur Morgan started it in 1921, the same year in New York...
New at Pentagram (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Michael Bierut designed the graphics for the Saarinen retrospective at MCNY.
Archinect (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Nicolai Ourousoff reviews the exhibit �Eero Saarinen: Shaping the Future,� which opened at the Museum of the City of New York on Tuesday. Via the NYT .
New York Times (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
This exhibit, at the Museum of the City of New York, reveals the anxieties and contradictions buried underneath the work of the architect Eero Saarinen.
Paramus Post (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
Goal Is Preservation of Architecturally Significant Modernist Building in Holmdel, N.J. The New Jersey chapter of the American Institute of Architects (AIA-NJ), in concert with Preservation New Jersey, a historic preservation organization, recently presented their vision for the preservation of Bell Labs in Holmdel, N.J., at a community open house attended by approximately 1,500 guests. Bell Labs,...
Vulture (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Mark Harris pleads for someone, anyone , to save NBC . Emma Rosenblum chats with Zach Gifford , currently in the midst of his last season as Dillon High's quarterback on Friday Night Lights . David Edelstein reviews Fantastic Mr. Fox and Red Cliff . Logan Hill explores how Nicolas Coppola became Nic Cage , and he also talks to Tim Burton about his new exhibit at MoMA. Boris Kachka has a conversation...
brandflakesforbreakfast (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
An Eero Saarinen exhibit kicks off tomorrow at the Museum of the City of New York . The exhibition, titled Eero Saarinen: Shaping the Future is a comprehensive project exploring the work of one of the most prolific, unorthodox, and controversial masters of 20th-century architecture. Maybe you've seen one of his chairs , or paid a visit to one of his architectural masterpieces . The exhibit is totally...
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