Eliel saarinen architect biography samples
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Eliel Gottlieb Saarinen was born on 20 August 1873 in Rantasalmi, Southern Savonia. Saarinen’s parents were vicar Juho Saarinen and Selma Saarinen (nee Broms).
Eliel saarinen architect biography samples
Eliel Saarinen took his matriculation examination in 1893 and began his studies at the Polytechnical School of Helsinki and the Drawing School of The Art Society of Finland the same year.
Eliel Saarinen established an architecture office together with fellow architecture students, Herman Gesellius and Armas Lindgren in 1897, the same year they received their diplomas of architecture.
The Exposition Universelle 1900 in Paris was the breakthrough for the architect trio. The Grand Duchy of Finland had its pavilion at the exposition, designed by Gesellius, Lindgren and Saarinen. The National Museum of Finland, based on the winning entry of the architecture competition in 1902 and completed in 1910, is the office’s main work,along with the atelier home Hvitträsk.
In the early years of the 1900s, Gesellius, Lindgren