Eliel Saarinen

The quote for the second week is from Eliel Saarinen: "Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context -- a chair in a room, a room in a house, a house in an environment, an environment in a city plan."

Alla Kazovsky: Asking Questions Alla Kazovsky 2011

The quote for the second week is from Eliel Saarinen: "Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context -- a chair in a room, a room in a house, a house in an environment, an environment in a city plan."

Alla Kazovsky: Asking Questions Alla Kazovsky 2011

Bomber City near Detroit—in spite or perhaps because of its progressive designs by the likes of Louis Kahn, Eliel Saarinen and Skidmore Owings & Merrill, among others—was abandoned when Ford Motor Co. refused to provide land, forcing workers into trailer parks.

Building for War Julie V. Iovine 2011

The quote for the second week is from Eliel Saarinen: "Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context -- a chair in a room, a room in a house, a house in an environment, an environment in a city plan."

Alla Kazovsky: Asking Questions Alla Kazovsky 2011

The quote for the second week is from Eliel Saarinen: "Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context -- a chair in a room, a room in a house, a house in an environment, an environment in a city plan."

Alla Kazovsky: Asking Questions Alla Kazovsky 2011

Bomber City near Detroit—in spite or perhaps because of its progressive designs by the likes of Louis Kahn, Eliel Saarinen and Skidmore Owings & Merrill, among others—was abandoned when Ford Motor Co. refused to provide land, forcing workers into trailer parks.

Building for War Julie V. Iovine 2011

The quote for the second week is from Eliel Saarinen: "Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context -- a chair in a room, a room in a house, a house in an environment, an environment in a city plan."

Alla Kazovsky: Asking Questions Alla Kazovsky 2011

The quote for the second week is from Eliel Saarinen: "Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context -- a chair in a room, a room in a house, a house in an environment, an environment in a city plan."

Alla Kazovsky: Asking Questions Alla Kazovsky 2011

Today we visited the Finnish version of Taliesin, the Eliel Saarinen architectural retreat/country home at Hvitträsk.

Kenneth Hite's Journal princeofcairo 2006

The clean, mid-century modernist architecture, by esteemed Finnish architect Eliel Saarinen, is on the National Historic Registry.

www.startribune.com 2012