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November 19, 2019
in Art & Architecture

Silence and Gordon Bunshaft

November 19, 2019
in Art & Architecture

Nicholas Adams– At times, writing about the architect Gordon Bunshaft (1909–1990), former chief designer for the firm of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM), was like writing about a sulky teenager. Architects, of course, have lots of ways of talking. Philip Johnson was garrulous––people liked to say that he talked a

August 20, 2010
in Humanities

Eero Saarinen at 100

August 20, 2010
in Humanities

Today marks the 100th birthday of Eero Saarinen, the Finnish-American architect whose work both reflected and defined a post-World War II American national aesthetic. Saarinen, who passed away in 1961, was born on August 20, 1910 in Kirkkonummi, Finland, a few miles southwest of Helsinki. Saarinen’s father, Eliel, was a