If Only Detroit Had More Eeros...

Eero Saarinen (1910-1961) was a Finnish born architect who spent most of his life in the Detroit, MI area. He is famous for varying his style according to the demands of the projects. Saarinen brought together many types of disciplines to create new architecture and furniture with the notion of bringing all the different parts together to create one beautiful thing.

He helped to define 20th century post war architecture creating both very simple/elegant (Orthodox Modern Architecture), as well as super expressive and sensual designs. He was constantly reinventing and inventing, while asking the tough questions like "Why does a chair need to have all those legs?" (Tulip Chair)

There is a lot of information and videos on Eero, but here is a short video for you.