Born: 20-Aug-1910
Birthplace: Kirkkonummi, Finland
Died: 1-Sep-1961
Location of death: Ann Arbor, MI
Cause of death: unspecified

Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Architect

Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Designed IBM's Watson Research Centre

Father: Eliel Saarinen (architect, b. 1873, d. 1950)
Mother: Loja Gesellius (sculptor)
Sister: Eva-Lisa
Wife: Lillian Swann (sculptor, one son, one daughter, m. 1939, div. 1953)
Son: Eric
Daughter: Susan
Wife: Aline Bernstein Loucheim (m. 1953)
Son: Eames (b. 1953)

    University: Académie de la Grande Chaumière, Paris
    University: B Arch, Yale University (1934)
    University: Cranbrook Academy of Art

    Naturalized US Citizen 1940

Selected edifices:
Hockey Rink, Yale University (1959, New Haven, CT )
US Embassy, Oslo (1959, Oslo, Sweden )
US Embassy, London (1961, London, England )
Watson Research Centre (1961, Yorktown, NY )
Dulles Airport (1962, Chantilly, VA )
TWA Terminal, Kennedy Airport (1962, New York City )
CBS Building (1964, New York City )
Vivian Beaumont Theater, Lincoln Center (1965, New York City)

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