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Eliel Saarinen
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Key facts
- Born
- Gottlieb Eliel Saarinen , August 20, 1873, Rantasalmi , Grand Duchy of Finland
- Died
- July 1, 1950 (1950-07-01) (aged 76), Bloomfield Hills, Michigan , U.S.
- Occupation
- Architect
- Spouse
- Loja Saarinen
- Children
- Eero Saarinen Pipsan Saarinen Swanson
- Awards
- AIA Gold Medal
- Buildings
- Helsinki Central railway station National Museum of Finland Vyborg railway station Hvitträsk Kleinhans Music Hall
- Projects
- Finnish pavilion at the 1900 Exposition Universelle Cranbrook Academy of Art
- Design
- Eliel Saarinen's Tribune Tower design (1922) Finnish markka banknotes (1922)
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- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Grand Duchy of Finland
- Place of birth
- Rantasalmi
- Place of death
- Bloomfield Hills
- Occupation
- urban planner
- Educated at
- Helsinki University of Technology
- Employer
- Cranbrook Educational Community
- Languages spoken
- Finnish
- Native language
- Finnish
- Religion
- Lutheranism
- Notable work
- Helsinki Central Railway Station
- Field of work
- architecture
- Movement
- Jugendstil
- Image
- Eliel Saarinen.jpg
- Work location
- Hvitträsk
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- Commons category
- Eliel Saarinen
- date of death
- 1950-01-01
- date of birth
- 1873-01-01
- IPA transcription
- ˈeliel ˈsɑːrinen
- topic's main category
- Category:Eliel Saarinen
- Commons gallery
- Eliel Saarinen
- birth name
- Gottlieb Eliel Saarinen
- name in native language
- Gottlieb Eliel Saarinen
- has works in the collection
- Swedish Centre for Architecture and Design
- Commons Creator page
- Eliel Saarinen
- described at URL
- arch-pavouk.cz/index.php/architekti/744-saarinen-eliel
- student
- Florence Knoll
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Encyclopedic overview
Gottlieb Eliel Saarinen (/ˈsɑːrɪnən/, Finnish: [ˈeliel ˈsɑːrinen]; August 20, 1873 – July 1, 1950) was a Finnish and American architect, designer, and urban planner. Saarinen worked in a diverse range of styles in his native Finland and, after emigrating in 1923, the United States. He was the father of architect Eero Saarinen and designer Pipsan Saarinen Swanson. Through his rejected 1922 design of the Chicago Tribune building he indirectly played a significant role in the influence and development of Art Deco architecture.
Early life and work in Finland
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