Articles Tagged with ''Eero Saarinen''

99% Invisible Podcast Investigates the Great Midcentury Personality Study

Hear the voices of Eero Saarinen, Philip Johnson, and others in the recent episode 'The Mind of an Architect.'

August 17, 2016

In 1958, the Institute of Personality Assessment and Research (IPAR) at the University of California, Berkeley, set out to study the personalities of creative people—specifically, 40 top architects living or working in the U.S. A July 2016 issue of the podcast 99% Invisible reexamines the IPAR study.

Architecture + Creativity

Genesis of Genius: Excerpts from Pierluigi Serraino's New Book, The Creative Architect

A 1950s study tried to find what makes architects creative. The results are surprising and telling.

Pierluigi Serraino

May 1, 2016

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In 1958, the Institute of Personality Assessment and Research (IPAR) at the University of California, Berkeley, embarked on an ambitious endeavor to closely study 40 of the most creative architects living in the U.S. or working in the country at the time.

Genesis of Genius

Case Study: Eero Saarinen

In this excerpt from The Creative Architect, Serraino reveals the intriguing findings that both motivated Saarinen and made him insecure.

Pierluigi Serraino

May 1, 2016

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Saarinen was dyslexic. As a coping mechanism, he sketched his thoughts and ideas during his interview with psychologist William Smelser, who noted Eero’s quest for enduring acknowledgement for his work.

NYC Airports to Receive Major Improvements

Fred A. Bernstein

September 21, 2015

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A slew of airportment improvements—some controversial—are headed for New York City over the next several years. Image courtesy Beyer Blinder Belle The only rendering of the proposed TWA Flight Center Hotel, designed by Beyer Blinder Belle, shows very little of the future structure except two six-story volumes behind Saarinen’s winglike forms. New York will see a slew of airport improvements in the next few years and, surprisingly, the only one not causing controversy is a $48 million terminal for animals known as the Ark. The same can’t be said for the other two projects—a $4 billion reconstruction of LaGuardia Airport

Miller House and Garden by Eero Saarinen

Columbus, Indiana

Suzanne Stephens

February 15, 2011

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The house that architect Eero Saarinen completed in 1957 for J. Irwin Miller and his family in Columbus, Indiana, easily qualifies as a paragon of residential midcentury Modernism.