List of works by Eero Saarinen

This is a list of houses, commercial buildings, educational facilities, furniture designs, and other structures designed by Finnish-American architect Eero Saarinen (1910–1961). Many of Saarinen's early designs were in collaboration with his father Eliel Saarinen.[1][2] Only after his father died in 1950 did Saarinen design buildings on his own in earnest.[1] During his career, he designed buildings for large corporations such as Bell Labs, IBM, CBS, and General Motors. In addition, he designed several airport terminals and university buildings,[3] along with numerous structures for the businessman J. Irwin Miller.[4] When Saarinen died suddenly in 1961, ten of his buildings were still under development.[5]

Buildings and structures

List of buildings and structures designed by Eero Saarinen
Name[6] City State/Country Designed Completed Notes Image
Hvitträsk Studio and Home Kirkkonummi Finland 1929 1937 Remodel
Swedish Theatre Helsinki Finland 1935 1936 Remodel. With Eliel Saarinen
Fenton Community Center Fenton Michigan 1937 1938 With Eliel Saarinen
J. F. Spencer House Huntington Woods Michigan 1937 1938 First building designed independently
J.K. Nikander Hall Hancock Michigan 1939 First building Saarinen designed within Michigan's Copper Country. Designed in conjunction with his father, Eliel Saarinen.
Charles and Ingrid Koebel House Grosse Pointe Farms Michigan 1937 1940 With Eliel Saarinen and J. Robert F. Swanson
Kleinhans Music Hall Buffalo New York 1938 1940 With Eliel Saarinen. Designated a National Historic Landmark in 1989
Crow Island School Winnetka Illinois 1938 1942 With Eliel Saarinen and Perkins&Will. Designated a National Historic Landmark in 1990
Berkshire Music Center buildings Lenox Massachusetts 1938 1959 Tanglewood Shed in 1938 (with Eliel Saarinen and Joseph Franz), Chamber Music Shed in 1947 (with Eliel Saarinen), Edmund Haws Talbot Orchestra Canopy in 1959
Center Line Defense Housing Center Line Michigan 1941 1942 With Eliel Saarinen and J. Robert F. Swanson. 477 housing units
Albert and Muriel Wermuth House Fort Wayne Indiana 1941 1942
Willow Lodge Willow Run Michigan 1942 1943 Demolished
Lincoln Heights Housing Washington District of Columbia 1944 1946 With Eliel Saarinen and J. Robert F. Swanson.
Hugh Taylor Birch Hall at Antioch College Yellow Springs Ohio 1944 1947 With Eliel Saarinen and J. Robert F. Swanson.
Des Moines Art Center Des Moines Iowa 1944 1948 With Eliel Saarinen and J. Robert F. Swanson. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004
Case Study House#9 Pacific Palisades California 1945 1949 With Charles Eames. Saarinen also provided an original plan for House#8, but Eames completely redesigned it. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013
Birmingham High School Birmingham Michigan 1945 1952 With Eliel Saarinen and J. Robert F. Swanson
Drake University plan and buildings Des Moines Iowa 1945 1957 Harvey Ingham Hall of Science, Fitch Hall of Pharmacy, Women's Dormitory & Dining Hall (all in 1945 with Eliel Saarinen and J. Robert F. Swanson), Bible School & Prayer Chapel in 1952, Women's Dormitory #4 in 1957, Jewett Union addition in 1957
Christ Church Lutheran Minneapolis Minnesota 1947 1949 With Eliel Saarinen; solo addition in 1962. Designated a National Historic Landmark in 2009.
Eero Saarinen House Bloomfield Hills Michigan 1947 1959 Renovation of a Victorian house
Gateway Arch St. Louis Missouri 1947 1965 Designated a National Historic Landmark in 1987
UAW–CIO Cooperative Flint Michigan 1948 1948 Renovation. Demolished.
General Motors Technical Center Warren Michigan 1948 1956 Designated a National Historic Landmark in 2014
Aspen Music Center Aspen Colorado 1949 1949 With Eliel Saarinen. Demolished in 1963.
Brandeis University plan and buildings Waltham Massachusetts 1949 1952 With Matthew Nowicki. Ridgewood Quadrangle Dormitories (1950), Hamilton Quadrangle Dormitory & Student Center (1952), Sherman Student Center (1952) (three remodeled, one demolished)
Loja Saarinen House Bloomfield Hills Michigan 1950 1950 House for Saarinen's widowed mother
J. Irwin and Xenia Miller Cottage District of Muskoka Ontario 1950 1952 The first of four buildings Saarinen designed for J. Irwin Miller.[4] Occupied by Miller and his wife Xenia, it had an organic design.[7]
Irwin Union Bank and Trust Columbus Indiana 1950 1954 The second of four buildings Saarinen designed for J. Irwin Miller.[4] Saarinen designed Irwin Union Bank and Trust's one-story bank and an adjacent three-story office wing.[8] The building was designated a National Historic Landmark in 2000.[9]
Massachusetts Institute of Technology buildings Cambridge Massachusetts 1950 1955 MIT Chapel and Kresge Auditorium
University of Michigan School of Music Ann Arbor Michigan 1951 1956
Milwaukee County War Memorial Milwaukee Wisconsin 1952 1957 Eero Saarinen architecture
Eero Saarinen & Associates Building Bloomfield Hills Michigan 1953 1953
Firestone Baars Chapel, Stephens College Columbia Missouri 1953 1956
Miller House Columbus Indiana 1953 1957 The third of four buildings Saarinen designed for J. Irwin Miller.[4] Occupied by the family of Miller and his wife Xenia,[10] it was designated a National Historic Landmark in 2000.[9]
Concordia Senior College Fort Wayne Indiana 1953 1958
Emma Hartman Noyes House at Vassar College Poughkeepsie New York 1954 1958
United States Chancellery Building Oslo Norway 1955 1959
United States Chancellery Building London England 1955 1960
University of Chicago plan and buildings Chicago Illinois 1955 1960 Women's Dormitory & Dining Hall (1958; demolished 2001), Law School (1960)
David S. Ingalls Rink New Haven Connecticut 1956 1958
IBM Manufacturing & Training Facility Rochester Minnesota 1956 1958
TWA Terminal New York City New York 1956 1962 Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005
Hill College House (Hill Hall) Philadelphia Pennsylvania 1957 1960 undergraduate dormitories at the University of Pennsylvania
IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center Yorktown Heights New York 1957 1961
Bell Telephone Corporate Laboratories Holmdel New Jersey 1957 1962
Deere & Co. Administrative Center Moline Illinois 1957 1963
Ezra Stiles & Morse Colleges New Haven Connecticut 1958 1962
Dulles International Airport Main Terminal Chantilly Virginia 1958 1963 The original terminal of Dulles International Airport, it was Saarinen's only Virginia work.[11] The structure is built with a concave roof and mobile lounges that ferried passengers directly to planes.[12]
Vivian Beaumont Repertory Theater & Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts Library & Museum New York City New York 1958 1965 A Broadway and off-Broadway theater complex housed in the same building as the New York Public Library's Performing Arts Library, designed by Gordon Bunshaft.[13] Saarinen designed the Broadway theater and one of the off-Broadway theaters.[14]
North Christian Church Columbus Indiana 1959 1964 The last of four buildings Saarinen designed for J. Irwin Miller.[4] The building has a hexagonal footprint and prominent spire.[15] It was designated a National Historic Landmark in 2000.[9]
Hamden Office Hamden Connecticut 1960 1961 A renovation of Lucerne, a mansion designed in 1906 by Brown and Von Beren. It was adapted to serve as a headquarters for Saarinen & Associates, but the project was not completed until after Saarinen's death in 1961.[16]
Saarinen House New Haven Connecticut 1960 1961 A renovation of a Tudor Revival house that Saarinen bought for himself after being hired by Yale University; the project was not completed until after Saarinen died.[17]
CBS Building New York City New York 1960 1965 The only skyscraper designed by Saarinen, it was built as a CBS corporate headquarters.[18] It is a New York City designated landmark.[19]
Ellinikon Airport East Terminal Athens Greece 1960 1969 Saarinen designed the east terminal,[20] which was abandoned after 2001 and later converted into a park.[21]

Furniture and furnishings

List of furniture and furnishings designed by Eero Saarinen
Name[6] Designed Completed Notes Image
Cranbrook School for Boys furnishings, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan 1925 1931 With Eliel Saarinen
Saarinen House furnishings, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan 1928 1930
Kingswood School for Girls furnishings, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan 1929 1931
Pedestal Series 1954 1957 Furniture design for Knoll Associates. Includes the tulip chair
Grasshopper Chair 1943 1946 Chair design for Knoll Associates
Models 71 and 73 1945 1950 Chair design for Knoll Associates
Womb Chair & Ottoman 1946 1948 Chair design for Knoll Associates

References

  1. ^ a b Pelkonen & Albrecht 2006, p. 8.
  2. ^ Merkel 2005, p. 35.
  3. ^ Solomon, Nancy (May 27, 2008). Architecture INTL: Celebrating the Past, Designing the Future. Visual Reference Publications. ISBN 978-1-58471-162-9. Retrieved October 25, 2025.
  4. ^ a b c d e Pelkonen & Albrecht 2006, p. 57.
  5. ^ Merkel 2005, p. 220.
  6. ^ a b Merkel 2005, pp. 247–249.
  7. ^ Pelkonen & Albrecht 2006, pp. 59–60.
  8. ^ Merkel 2005, p. 153.
  9. ^ a b c Burnette, Andy (May 31, 2000). "City buildings on historic-landmarks list". The Republic. p. 12. Retrieved September 25, 2025 – via newspapers.com.
  10. ^ Lange, Alexandra (April 4, 2011). "Making the Modern House Home". The Design Observer Group. Archived from the original on January 21, 2013. Retrieved July 5, 2012.
  11. ^ Young, Julie (October 24, 2008). "Modern look rounds out old style". Richmond Times-Dispatch. p. D6. Retrieved October 20, 2025.
  12. ^ Jones, Alfred (June 10, 1962). "Dulles Airport—Where You 'Ferry' To Plane: Mobile Lounges To Carry Passengers From Terminal To Jets At New Airfield". The Baltimore Sun. p. FA1. ISSN 1930-8965. ProQuest 542421695.
  13. ^ Hughes, Allen (October 21, 1965). "Library and Museum of the Arts At Lincoln Center Ready Soon". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved March 4, 2022.
  14. ^ Merkel 2005, p. 178.
  15. ^ McClure, Julie (May 11, 2018). "North Christian Church makes top 10 list of endangered Indiana Landmarks". Princeton Daily Clarion. p. A6. Retrieved October 6, 2025 – via newspapers.com.
  16. ^ Bingham, Michael C. (July 17, 2019). "Hamden Hall gets its castle in the sky". Hartford Business Journal. Retrieved October 29, 2025.
  17. ^ Sisson, Patrick (May 6, 2016). "Inside Eero Saarinen's Renovated New Haven Tudor, One of His Last Projects". Curbed. Retrieved October 29, 2025.
  18. ^ "Granite Tower Designed by Saarinen". The Christian Science Monitor. March 30, 1962. p. 8. ProQuest 510308787.
  19. ^ Barron, James (October 22, 1997). "3 Buildings Are Declared Landmarks". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived from the original on June 26, 2020. Retrieved June 24, 2020.
  20. ^ Russo, Carolyn (November 3, 2015). Art of the Airport Tower. Smithsonian Institution. p. 160. ISBN 978-1-58834-508-0. Retrieved October 25, 2025.
  21. ^ Lewis, Nell (November 25, 2022). "Athens' abandoned Ellinikon airport to be transformed into a 600-acre coastal park". CNN. Retrieved October 25, 2025.

Sources

  • Merkel, Jayne (2005). Eero Saarinen. Phaidon. ISBN 978-0-7148-6592-8. OCLC 57750853.
  • Pelkonen, Eeva-Liisa; Albrecht, Donald, eds. (2006). Eero Saarinen: Shaping the Future. Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-12237-4.
  • Román, Antonio (2003). Eero Saarinen: an Architecture of Multiplicity. Princeton Architectural Press. ISBN 1-56898-340-9. OCLC 50644049.
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