Eliel Saarinen belongs to the record of technology as a figure whose work outlasted the moment that produced it.
The record lists Eliel Saarinen as Finnish-American architect (1873-1950).
Eliel Saarinen was born at Rantasalmi in 1873. His recorded nationality is Finland. He was educated at Helsinki University of Technology and Former Real Lyceum.
Around the turn of the twentieth century, national institutions, mass media and mass politics changed both the scale of a career and its risks.
He worked as architect and urban planner.
His affiliations include University of Michigan and Cranbrook Educational Community.
His principal work is Helsinki Central Railway Station. Technology is judged by adoption: an invention nobody uses is a curiosity.
His recorded fields of work are architecture.
His work was formally recognised with the AIA Gold Medal, Royal Gold Medal and honorary doctorate of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology.
That the work was done from Finland matters. Opportunity has never been evenly distributed, and where a person is based shapes which doors open and whose work gets seen.
Eliel Saarinen died in 1950, aged 77. What survives is the work, which is the only durable form of a reputation.
Achievements
- Notable work: Helsinki Central Railway Station
- Affiliated with University of Michigan and Cranbrook Educational Community
- Educated at Helsinki University of Technology and Former Real Lyceum
- Worked as architect and urban planner
