As per our current Database, Eero Saarinen has been died on Sep 1, 1961 (age 51).
When Eero Saarinen die, Eero Saarinen was 51 years old.
| Popular As | Eero Saarinen |
| Occupation | Architect |
| Age | 51 years old |
| Zodiac Sign | Leo |
| Born | August 20, 1910 (Kirkkonummi, Finland) |
| Birthday | August 20 |
| Town/City | Kirkkonummi, Finland |
| Nationality | Finland |
Eero Saarinen’s zodiac sign is Leo. According to astrologers, people born under the sign of Leo are natural born leaders. They are dramatic, creative, self-confident, dominant and extremely difficult to resist, able to achieve anything they want to in any area of life they commit to. There is a specific strength to a Leo and their "king of the jungle" status. Leo often has many friends for they are generous and loyal. Self-confident and attractive, this is a Sun sign capable of uniting different groups of people and leading them as one towards a shared cause, and their healthy sense of humor makes collaboration with other people even easier.
Eero Saarinen was born in the Year of the Dog. Those born under the Chinese Zodiac sign of the Dog are loyal, faithful, honest, distrustful, often guilty of telling white lies, temperamental, prone to mood swings, dogmatic, and sensitive. Dogs excel in business but have trouble finding mates. Compatible with Tiger or Horse.
Led the avant-garde architectural movement towards sweeping, arching, and simple curves in the U.S. He designed furniture like the Grasshopper lounge chair and ottoman, the Womb chair and ottoman, the Womb settee, side and arm chairs, and the Tulip or Pedestal group.
He developed a close friendship with fellow designers Charles and Ray Eames while attending school at the Cranbrook Academy of Art, where his father was a Teacher. He began studying sculpture in 1929 at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière in Paris, France. He also attended the Yale School of Architecture until 1934.
He and his father designed the Crow Island School in Winnetka, Illinois, which became the inspiration for similar designs for decades to come; they were widely acclaimed for their proposal for the mall in Washington, D.C.
He was born in Finland to the famed Architect Eliel Saarinen. He and his father moved to Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, when he was 13. He was named a naturalized citizen of the United States in 1940. He fathered two children, Eric and Susan, with Sculptor Lilian Swann Saarinen. He married his second wife, The New York Times art critic Aline Bernstein Louchheim, in 1954, with whom he fathered a son, Eames. He named his son after collaborator Charles Eames.
He and his family were friends with fellow famed Architect Florence Knoll.
