Who was Eero Saarinen?
Eero Saarinen was the lead designer and architect of the team that won the 1947 Jefferson National Expansion Memorial competition. Saarinen, along with Dan Kiley, landscape architect, Lily Saarinen, sculptor, J. Barr, draftsman, and Alexander Girard, designer, competed with 171 other architects and architectural teams to win. Eero Saarinen went on to work on other projects, including the main terminal at Dulles Airport and the TWA Terminal at JFK Airport, the General Motors Technical Center, the John Deere and Company Headquarters, and U.S. Embassies in London and Oslo. He was renowned for his innovation in using new materials and engineering in these daring concepts, as well as for his modernist furniture designs.
