Saarinen, Eliel
Name
Saarinen, Eliel
Variant name
Saarinen, Gottlieb Eliel
Gender
Male
Birth
1873 Rantasalmi
Death
1950 Bloomfield Hills
Descriptive Note
Saarien was a Finnish architect who became famous for his art nouveau buildings in the early years of the 20th century. His first major work with the firm, the Finnish pavilion at the World Fair of 1900, exhibited an extraordinary convergence of stylistic influences: Finnish wooden architecture, the British Gothic Revival, and the Jugendstil. Saarinen's early manner was later christened the Finnish National Romanticism and culminated in the Helsinki Central railway station (designed 1904, constructed 1910-14).
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Influencers