{"id":24147,"date":"2017-02-09T12:11:37","date_gmt":"2017-02-09T17:11:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=24147"},"modified":"2017-02-13T15:49:39","modified_gmt":"2017-02-13T20:49:39","slug":"eero-saarinen-the-architect-who-saw-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/09\/eero-saarinen-the-architect-who-saw-the-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Eero Saarinen: The Architect Who Saw The Future (2016)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/eero1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-24150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/eero1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"359\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/eero1.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/eero1-300x239.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/eero1-1x1.jpg 1w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a>One of the most influential figures in post-World War II architecture was the Finnish-born Eero Saarinen, whose neo-futuristic vision created some of the most striking design accomplishments of the 20th century. Peter Rosen\u2019s documentary, which aired on PBS\u2019 American Masters, offers a satisfactory oversight of Saarinen\u2019s career.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The son of the acclaimed architect Eliel Saarinen, Eero Saarinen first gained notability in 1948 when he won the competition to create the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial in St. Louis with a concept that became known as the Gateway Arch. Saarinen\u2019s designs for the TWA Flight Center at New York\u2019s John F. Kennedy International Airport and the main terminal at Washington\u2019s Dulles International Airport gave major transportation hubs a boldly modern appeal, while his General Motors Technical Center in Warren, Mich., turned the corporate campus into a work of intelligent art. Saarinen\u2019s interior design concepts, most notably the \u201ctulip chair,\u201d offered an imaginative spin on office and home d\u00e9cor.<\/p>\n<p>Eric Saarinen, the film\u2019s co-producer and director of photography, serves as an on-screen presence by visiting many of his father\u2019s famous buildings. But the younger Saarinen is something of a dull personality, and he appears uncomfortable plumbing the sour aspects of his father\u2019s life \u2013 Saarinen divorced Eric\u2019s mother, sculptor Lilian Swann, and mostly ignored Eric and his sister in favor of the vivacious writer Aline Bernstein, whose tireless promotion of Saarinen\u2019s projects made him a household name. The film\u2019s surplus of drone-enabled aerial shots of Saarinen\u2019s work also becomes a bit heavy-handed.<\/p>\n<p>Nonetheless, this is a decent overview of Saarinen\u2019s achievements and a fine introduction for those unfamiliar with his impact on architecture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most influential figures in post-World War II architecture was the Finnish-born Eero Saarinen, whose neo-futuristic vision created some of the most striking design accomplishments of the 20th century. Peter Rosen\u2019s documentary, which aired on PBS\u2019 American Masters, offers a satisfactory oversight of Saarinen\u2019s career.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,12],"tags":[1561,1562,292,1560],"class_list":["post-24147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-indie","category-movie-reviews","tag-architecture","tag-design","tag-documentary","tag-eeron-saarinen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24147"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24225,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24147\/revisions\/24225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}