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#265/Brand Saarinen: Author Eva Hagberg + Saarinen's Secretary, Ruth Clements Pudists

#265/Brand Saarinen: Author Eva Hagberg + Saarinen's Secretary, Ruth Clements Pudists

FromUSModernist Radio - Architecture You Love


#265/Brand Saarinen: Author Eva Hagberg + Saarinen's Secretary, Ruth Clements Pudists

FromUSModernist Radio - Architecture You Love

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Length:
72 minutes
Released:
Sep 12, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Eero Saarinen, who died in 1961, is now one of the most well-known and respected Modernist architects in history, famous for the St. Louis Arch, the TWA Terminal at JFK, Dulles Airport, and many other innovative projects. More that about any other architect, his work signaled an optimistic future, a sweeping beautiful, curvy future that was going to require, as the song would say decades later, shades. But Saarinen wasn't always so well-known, and for about eight years before his death, there was one incredibly smart and talented woman who built and managed Saarinen's reputation into the mega-star he is today. We are joined by author Eva Hagberg, with the new book When Eero Met His Match: Aline Louchheim Saarinen and the Making of an Architect. And later, somewhat miraculously, we found Ruth Clements Pudists, Eero Saarinen's secretary, still in her 90's. With a memory better than any of us, she was there during the growth of the Saarinen practice and made arrangements with Aline when he died.
Released:
Sep 12, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode

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Join Mr. Modernism George Smart and crew as they talk and laugh with people who enjoy, own, create, dream about, preserve, love, and hate Modernist architecture, the most exciting and controversial buildings in the world. USModernist Radio is backed by the nonprofit educational archive USModernist, the largest open digital archive for Modernist residential architecture in America. www.usmodernist.org