Architecture history is filled with father-son duos. In the 18th century, Jacques V Gabriel, the premier architect to the King of France, left his title to his son Ange-Jacques, who designed and ...

I thought it would be easy, on a Friday afternoon in August, to hop on a tour of Saarinen House, the eclectic 1930 masterwork by Finnish-American architect Eliel Saarinen on the grounds of Cranbrook, ...

The First Christian Church in Columbus, Indiana, designed by Eliel Saarinen (Carol M. Highsmith/Courtesy Library of Congress/Via Wikimedia) The Eliel-themed documentary is apparently still in ...

The famous Gateway Arch in St. Louis came out of an architectural competition, where both Eliel and his son, Eero, entered designs. Confusion over a telegraph addressed to “E. Saarinen” led to a ...

The costliest modern church in the world, planned by Europe’s most famous modern architect and his son, is going up across the street from a Victorian city hall and a conventional Carnegie library in ...

To look at the dot on a map representing Columbus, Indiana, it seems like any other small Midwestern city plopped in the middle of farm country. Studies of the history of American modern design have ...

Late last year, the scaffolding that had been wrapping a structure that stands as part of what is arguably the most emblematic work of Modernist architecture in Columbus, Indiana—a town that famously ...

Saarinen was born in 1910 to a prominent artistic family in Helsinki, Finland. His father was a famous national romantic style architect, Eliel Saarinen, and his mother a renowned textile designer ...

How does the built environment--whether fictitious or entirely founded in reality--impact how we experience and process film? From lesser-known indies to blockbuster movies, the ways in which ...