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Eero Saarinen

1910 - 1961

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Eero Saarinen (, Finnish: [ˈeːro ˈsɑːrinen]; August 20, 1910 – September 1, 1961) was a Finnish-American architect and industrial designer who created a wide array of innovative designs for buildings and monuments, including the General Motors Technical Center; the passenger terminal at Dulles International Airport; the TWA Flight Center (now TWA Hotel) at John F. Kennedy International Airport; the Vivian Beaumont Theater at Lincoln Center; and the Gateway Arch. He was the son of Finnish architect Eliel Saarinen. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Eero Saarinen is the 160th most popular architect (down from 127th in 2019), the 67th most popular biography from Finland (down from 49th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Finnish Architect.

Eero Saarinen is most famous for his design of the TWA terminal at JFK airport.

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Among ARCHITECTS

Among architects, Eero Saarinen ranks 160 out of 518Before him are Jacques-Germain Soufflot, Lina Bo Bardi, Alonzo Cano, Carlo Fontana, Paul Troost, and Charlotte Perriand. After him are Ebenezer Howard, Carl Ludvig Engel, Josep Puig i Cadafalch, Robert Adam, Jean Chalgrin, and Fazlur Rahman Khan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1910, Eero Saarinen ranks 86Before him are Nouhak Phoumsavanh, Louis Slotin, Juan Velasco Alvarado, Hideo Shinojima, Viktors Arājs, and Rudolf Lange. After him are Paul Bowles, Chico Xavier, Masayoshi Ōhira, Nguyễn Hữu Thọ, Julien Gracq, and Ngô Đình Nhu. Among people deceased in 1961, Eero Saarinen ranks 40Before him are Zoltán Tildy, Mukhtar Auezov, Joseph M. Schenck, Werner Jaeger, Maria Valtorta, and Margherita Sarfatti. After him are Hubert Van Innis, Mei Lanfang, Fyodor Kuznetsov, Milan Stojadinović, Princess Isabelle of Orléans, and Clark Ashton Smith.

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In Finland

Among people born in Finland, Eero Saarinen ranks 67 out of 751Before him are Tarja Turunen (1977), Fredrik Idestam (1838), Tom of Finland (1920), Lasse Virén (1949), Eino Leino (1878), and Ville Ritola (1896). After him are Leif Segerstam (1944), Väinö Linna (1920), Tapio Wirkkala (1915), Minna Canth (1844), Petteri Orpo (1969), and Jaakko Hintikka (1929).

Among ARCHITECTS In Finland

Among architects born in Finland, Eero Saarinen ranks 4Before him are Alvar Aalto (1898), Eliel Saarinen (1873), and Aino Aalto (1894). After him are Eero Aarnio (1932), Elissa Aalto (1922), Lars Sonck (1870), Wivi Lönn (1872), Johan Sigfrid Sirén (1889), and Marco Casagrande (1971).