Introduction * Chapter 1: Son of Eliel: Growing up Under the Drafting Table * Chapter 2: Creating Cranbrook: The Cranbrook Schools, Institute of Science, and Academy of Art * Chapter 3: Family Business: The Education of Eero and the Work of Saarinen and Saarinen * Chapter 4: Breaking Away: First Independent Projects and Furniture Designs * Chapter 5: The General Motors Technical Center * Chapter 6: GM Fallout: Corporate Campuses for IBM, Bell Labs, and John Deere * Chapter 7: College Explosion: Campuses for the Modern World at Antioch, Drake, and Brandeis * Chapter 8: The Cutting Edge on Campus: The MIT Auditorium and Chapel, and the Yale Hockey Rink * Chapter 9: College Buildings in Context: Concordia, Chicago, Morse and Stiles Colleges at Yale * Chapter 10: Building the Basics in a Small Midwestern Town: A Bank, a House, and a Church in Columbus, Indiana * Chapter 11: Big Ambitions in Big Cities Abroad: American Embassies in London and Oslo * Chapter 12: Big Ambitions in New York: the Vivian Beaumont Repertory Theatre at Lincoln Center and the CBS Building * Chapter 13: Symbolizing Modernity: The St. Louis Gateway Arch and the Milwaukee War Memorial * Chapter 14: Taking Flight: The TWA Terminal and the Athens and Dulles International Airports * Conclusion
Jayne Merkel is an architectural historian and critic and serves on the editorial board of Architectural Design in London. She was the editor of Oculus, the journal of the New York chapter of the American Institute of Architects, from 1995 to 2002. A prolific writer, she is the author of five books, and over the past 25 years has written for Art in America, Progressive Architecture, and Harvard Design Magazine, among many other publications. She was the architecture critic for The Cincinnati Enquirer from 1977 to 1988, and is a former director of the graduate program in criticism at Parsons School of Design in New York. Author's residence: New York, NY
'a fine-looking, well-written, serious book, lavish with photographs and drawings that comprehensively describe each project. The initial chapters about Eliel's work, Finland, and the Saarinen family, are delightful, and the biographical notes about Eero's friends, loves, clients and colleagues make the whole thing warm and human. This new assessment of Saarinen places him in his time, but makes him fresh and relevant to our own.' Building Design, September 2005 'the first comprehensive account of Saarinen's career - beautifully produced. The illustrations include a lot of unfamiliar material, and the thoroughly researched, jargon-free text is a pleasure to read. - Merkel is surely right in saying that in the age of Calatrava, Gehry and computer generated biomorphism, [Saarinen's] work is of renewed interest. - it feels surprisingly contemporary in its love of exuberant form and passion for the particularities of materials and place.' Richard Weston, RIBA (Royal Institute of Architects) Journal, October 2005 'A good book on the work of Eero Saarinen is overdue ... This book helps correct the balance by documenting an extraordinary body of work that was, and still is, inspiring in its exploration of use, form and material. ... handsomely produced ... a welcome addition to a limited record of scholarship on this significant twentieth-century architect.' The Architectural Review, December 2005 '[Saarinen] was one of the generation that rejected the anonymity of International Modernism in favour of something much more personalized. ... he was an early 'signature architect' of the kind we are so familiar with today. ... a much more thorough and interesting monograph than most. ... For a time eclipsed, Saarinen's work now seems very contemporary' Hugh Pearman, World of Interiors, March 2006
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