The First Christian Church, designed by the legendary architect Eliel Saarinen, is a quintessential example of early art nouveau architecture. Its soaring tower, clad in Indiana limestone ...
A sturdy and imposing design by Eliel Saarinen—whose son, Eero, would rise to fame in America as the architect of the TWA terminal at what is now called JFK Airport—the structure looks like a ...
Eero Saarinen was the son of acclaimed Finnish architect, Eliel Saarinen, who immigrated with his family to the United States in 1922. In the late 1930s Eero joined his father to form Saarinen, ...
First Christian Church, designed by Eliel and Eero Saarinen and completed in 1942, is widely considered to be the first modernist architecture church in the United States. Designated a national ...
He was influenced by his father Eliel Saarinen and had notable peers such as Charles, Ray Eames, and Florence Knoll. Saarinen studied at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière in Paris and the Yale ...