Collection Eero Saarinen

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• Collection: Collection Eero Saarinen, 1956-1964

Personnes et institutions

• Eero Saarinen (architect)
• Eero Saarinen & Associates (architect)
• Eero Saarinen (archive creator)

Titre

Collection Eero Saarinen

Dates de création

1956-1964

Classification

• archives

Niveau de description archivistique

Fonds 159

Collation

• 573 drawings
• 132 photographs
• 27 textual documents
• 1 16 mm film
• 1 DVD

Présentation du contenu

The Eero Saarinen Collection documents eight built projects executed in the United States, Greece, Norway and the United Kingdom. The projects reflect the range of Saarinen's practice, including airports (Athens), churches (North Christian Church, Columbus, Indiana), embassies (the US Embassy and Chancellery building at Oslo, Norway and London, England), corporate headquarters (CBS, New York and John Deere, Moline, Illinois) and university buildings (the David S. Ingalls Hockey Arena, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut).

The collection includes many autograph Saarinen drawings, especially conceptual sketches, as well as design devlopment drawings, photographic materials, including views of non-extant models and textual documents.

Numéro de réference

AP159

Mode de classement

Materials in this collection are arranged by project into eight series.

Note biographique

Eero Saarinen was born in Kirkkonummi, Finland. He studied sculpture in France before entering architecture school at Yale University. Saarinen worked for his father Eliel and taught at Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.

He formed his own architectual office in 1950 and until his death, in 1961, produced a remarkable range of buildings, primarily in the United States. He designed airports, university buildings, churches, corporate headquarters, private houses and furniture.

Conditions d’accès

• Access by appointment only.

Conditions de réproduction

• For copyright information or permission to reproduce material from the fonds, please contact the CCA (reproductions@cca.qc.ca).

Modalités d’entrée

• Gift of David Graham Powrie in 2001.

Historique de la conservation

The Eero Saarinen Collection remained in the custody of David Graham Powrie until his donation of the bulk of the collection to the CCA in 2001 as part of a donation of 800 drawings, photographs and a film by, or related to Eero Saarinen, Charles Eames and Oscar Niemeyer. The Niemeyer and some Eames materials are in the CCA's Prints and Drawings Collection. Subsequent smaller transfers were made in 2002 and 2005.

Notes de l’archiviste

• The collection was likely processed by Howard Shubert.

Mention de crédit

When citing the collection as a whole, use the citation: Eero Saarinen collection, Collection Centre Canadien d’Architecture/Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal. When citing specific collection material, please refer to the object’s specific credit line.

Langue et écriture des documents

Documents are in English.

Sources complémentaires

• PH1985:0559 is a 1952 group portrait of the UNESCO architects, including Eero Saarinen. ARCH111487 is a photograph of the IBM plant by Kevin Roche, part of the Peter Carter fonds. ARCH218255 are slides of the John Deere factory within the Myron Goldsmith fonds. A complimentary collection of Eero Saarinen's work is found at the Yale University Library.