2 Quotes & Sayings By Eero Saarinen
Eero Saarinen (March 3, 1910 – March 28, 1961) was a Finnish-American architect. He was the foremost Finnish American architect of the mid 20th century. Saarinen was born in St. Petersburg, Russia to Finnish parents
His father, Eliel Saarinen, was chief architect of the Imperial Russian Railway. When Finland gained independence from Russia in 1917, his family followed their countrymen to Helsinki, where his father continued to work as an architect. Eero Saarinen graduated from Helsinki University in 1932 with a degree in architecture.
He then spent two years at Harvard University studying modernist architecture under the tutelage of Walter Gropius and Marcel Breuer. In 1935 he won a competition for the design of a Finnish National Museum in Helsinki which would become known as the Helsinki Central Railway Station after its completion by his father in 1939. This project resulted in the design of the famous General Secretary's Building.