Group Tour
Eero Saarinen: Shaping the Future
Donald Albrecht
Thursday, December 10, 2009
4:00 p.m.
Museum of the City of New York
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Donald Albrecht, Curator of Architecture and Design at the Museum of the City of New York and curator of Eero Saarinen: Shaping the Future, will lead a tour of the architect’s first ever museum retrospective. The exhibition will feature never-before-seen sketches, models, photographs, furnishings, and a specially commissioned documentary film, which includes interviews with Saarinen’s collaborators.

Eero Saarinen played a pivotal role in building a new, post-war America throughout the ambitious and optimistic 1950s and 1960s. His clients, many of the leading corporations, universities, and other institutions of the time, and thereby his buildings projected America’s image nationally and internationally. Highlights of the exhibition will include Saarinen’s seminal projects, which embodied the aspirations and values of mid-twentieth century America.

Eero Saarinen: Shaping the Future is organized by the Finnish Cultural Institute in New York, the Museum of Finnish Architecture in Helsinki, and the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C., with the support of the Yale University School of Architecture. The impetus for this Finnish-American collaboration was the donation of the Eero Saarinen and Associates office archives in 2002 to the Yale University Library. Michael Beirut of Pentagram served as the graphic designer for the exhibition and its accompanying publication. The Museum of the City of New York installation is designed by Wendy Evans Joseph Architecture.

This group tour is currently at capacity. If you would like to be added to the wait list, please email Nick Anderson at anderson@archleague.org.

Reservations are required. Due to the limited number of tickets and to facilitate fair access across our membership, reservations are limited to members only. Upper level members, including League Circle firms, are limited to two reservations. Reservations will be given on a first-come, first-served basis, beginning at 10:00 a.m., Tuesday, December 1. Reservations received before 10:00 a.m. on December 1 will not be honored. Please email anderson@archleague.org. Further program information will be given upon confirmation.

This program was made possible in part by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council

Image: TWA Terminal, New York International (now John F. Kennedy International) Airport, New York, circa 1962. Photographer Balthazar Korab. © Balthazar Korab Ltd.