Volume 55, Number 10 · June 12, 2008
Flying High with Eero Saarinen
By Martin Filler
Eero Saarinen: Shaping the Future
an exhibition at the National Building Museum, Washington, D.C.,May 3–August 23, 2008; the Minneapolis Institute of Art and Walker Art Center, September 14, 2008–January 4, 2009; the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, January 31–April 26, 2009; and the Yale University Art Gallery and Yale University School of Architecture, New Haven, Connecticut, spring 2010.
Catalog of the exhibition edited by Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen and Donald Albrecht.
Yale University Press, 382 pp., $65.00; $50.00 (paper)
Eero Saarinen: Buildings from the Balthazar Korab Archive
edited by David G. De Long and C. Ford Peatross
Norton/Library of Congress, 464 pp., $100.00
The Gateway Arch: A Reflection of America
a film directed by Scott Huegerich and Bob Miano, narrated by Kevin Kline
Civil Pictures, DVD, $24.95
The premature death of a major artist inevitably raises an unanswerable question: What might have been? But when an exceptionally promising architect such as Eero Saarinen dies at an early age the loss seems especially tragic, because the slow pace of the building process has always made architecture anything but a young man's game. For ages, aspiring master masons served long apprenticeships until they were judged ready to erect their own designs. More recently, graduate education and professional certification have further delayed architects' construction careers. Today, few practitioners outside large firms are able to execute anything bigger than a private house before they turn forty.
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