Immigrating at the age of 13 to Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, Eero attended Cranbrook Academy of Art, designed by Eliel, who taught there and became the school’s first president as well as the chief architect of the Cranbrook campus, with Eero designing details like gargoyles and chairs. The son of prominent Finnish architect Eliel Saarinen and textile designer Loja Saarinen, Eero was surrounded by design his whole life, as was his son Eric, whose mother Lily Saarinen was a sculptor, artist and educator. “He figured out a way to be important across time, so even though he died young, he is still alive.” But I forgive him for his genius,” said Eric Saarinen, ASC. “Closure was something I didn’t have with my dad. The documentary also features rare archival interviews with Eero and his second wife, The New York Times art critic Aline Saarinen, as well as letters and quotations from Aline’s memoirs voiced respectively by Peter Franzén and Blythe Danner. Saarinen’s son, director of photography and co-producer Eric Saarinen, ASC ( "Lost in America," "The Hills Have Eyes," "Exploratorium"), visits the sites of his father’s work on a cathartic journey, shot in 6K with the latest in drone technology that showcases the architect’s body of timeless work for the first time.
His sudden death at age 51 cut short one of the most influential careers in American architecture. Kennedy International Airport, Yale University’s Ingalls Rink and Morse and Ezra Stiles Colleges, Virginia’s Dulles Airport, and modernist pedestal furniture like the Tulip chair. Louis’ iconic Gateway Arch and the General Motors Technical Center (Warren, Mich.), Saarinen also designed New York’s TWA Flight Center at John F. Best known for designing National Historic Landmarks such as St.
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