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December 2009

Eero's modern fossils

by Mildred F. Schmertz

On “Eero Saarinen: Shaping the Future” at the Museum of the City of New York.

IBM Manufacturing and Training Facility, Rochester, Minnesota, (c. 1958) © BalthazaKorab Ltd.

 

“Eero Saarinen: Shaping the Future” is the first retrospective of the life and work of Eero Saarinen (1910–61), a genuinely dis- tinguished post–World War II American architect.[1] This scholarly and thoroughly researched exhibition, long overdue, opened in November at the Museum of the City of New York and will remain there until the end of January, when it will travel to New Haven to be divided betwe ...

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Mildred F. Schmertz, a contributing writer for Architectural Digest, is editing an autobiography of by Benjamin Thompson.


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This article originally appeared in The New Criterion, Volume 28 December 2009, on page 38

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