Name
Saarinen, Eliel

Gender
Male

Birth
Rantasalmi (Finland), 1873

Death
Bloomfield Hills (Michigan), 1950

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).

Roles
Influencers

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