Eero Saarinen: America's Greatest Invention

Architecture is all around us, from what we see when we go to the mall, or the airport or casino it in the big details that we notice when walk in the building, but also the little thing we would never think to notice these architects focus on to create magic. Eero Saarinen was a man who created modern work before his time that is still appreciated today. He built and created for some of the biggest companies in American capitalism such as General motors, IBM, CBS. He created airport terminals in New York and Washington that were unique and equipped for traveling. “Saarinen was just arriving at the peak of his fame and success. He'd been on the cover of TIME, he had A-list clients,” Eero died at the young age of 51 after brain surgery

for brain tumor, just think of all the work he may have completed if his life wasn’t cut short.
His approached toward architecture was new and innovative and even after he died his work donated to Yale and went around on museum tour to teach people. “Over the past few years, however, there's been a Saarinen reappraisal” Many new architects had begun to study Saarinen approach and his work, it was more appreciated and understood now. “Saarinen was a Modernist by birthright” Saarinen was also an architect, who took second place in the 1922 competition to design the Chicago Tribune Tower. This competition open doors for Saarinen fathers career to blast off and take on his most important project of his career, Cranbrook Academy. Young Saarinen grew up watching his father and followed in his footsteps. “Eero worked occasionally on projects in his father's studio.” Eero knew how to cater to his clients “In Saarinen they found a man who operated in their sweet spot. His work had the richness and lyricism that so many Modernist buildings lacked” Saarinen came into the architect game with a modern approach that wasn’t respect because it was way before his town but year after his death people have known understand and appreciate the work.