Eero Saarinen

And then, of course, his son Eero Saarinen also lived here.

being part of the Detroit design community, and their office just down the street from here.

So all of the Cernan work that was done over time, which is the Arrow and Italy of Cernan, was sort of part of the Cranbrook world, meaning that their office was down the street and they lived here.

on campus, there's Saarinen House just down the street.

So there's that whole connection and then now we have these newer architects that have participated in some of the development.

And then the campus kind of evolved out of that.

And he was...

He was the reason why Saarinen jumped ship and came from an established position.

I want you to keep something in mind.

Many of you know that the architect, Eero Saarinen, had designed it basically as if you took a chain and you held it at both ends, a necklace chain or whatever you want, and you held it in both hands and put your hands apart, the way the curve of that chain would drop, that's what he decided to use.

And he designed that in 1947 because they were already talking about building something like this as a gateway to the West.

But you know what else was happening around that time as he brought it? There were claims that this could be a fascist symbol.

1965, construction of the Gateway Arch in St. Louis, Missouri was completed.

The 630-foot monument was designed by architect Eero Saarinen and commemorates the role of St. Louis in the westward expansion of the United States.

In 2009, President Barack Obama signed the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr.

Hate Crimes Prevention Act, which updated federal hate crime law to cover crimes motivated by by a victim's actual or perceived gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, or disability, in addition to race, color, religion, or national origin.

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And the architects talked about in the film, Eliel Saarinen, Miller House, Eero Saarinen, and I.M.

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By 1957, the judges need to make a decision.

One of the judges was a Finnish architect working in America, Eero Saarinen.

And the story goes that the Utzon scheme had been more or less rejected, put to one side.

Saarinen arrived late to the judging and was leafing through the reject pile.

And what I love about this is the ambition is...

Can an experience expand your perception of what the built environment could be? Could an experience expand your idea of the world? And I think a really interesting example is like think of if you visited the TWA airport by Saarinen.

And imagine what that was like to see that in the late 50s or in the 60s and to walk into that space that today feels super contemporary and really beautiful and inspiring.

But imagine that in the late 50s.

really almost unexpected impact in the world of architectural discourse.

Eero Saarinen was not at all a fan of Threat to the Next America, but his sister Pipsan was.

And she and her husband, Robert Swanson, wired hats off to you for your article.

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It's truly all rectangular.

The building designed by Eero Saarinen, it really is so incredible to come and work in a building like this in Holmdel.

End to end, it's a quarter mile of just the ability to walk and tap into this energy and this ecosystem that has been created.

And it's really been organically created.