American Visions the History of American Art and Architecture Worksheet

Mondays, January 31 - Febr uary 28, 2022
11:00am-12:15pm EST | 7:00pm-8:15pm EST

PRESENTED BY CRANBROOK Centre FOR COLLECTIONS AND RESEARCH

Lecturer: Kevin Adkisson, Curator, Cranbrook Heart for Collections and Research

$75 for Adults; $25 for Full-time Students with ID
Costless for Cranbrook University of Art and Cranbrook Schools Students (Cranbrook students must register by sending an email from their Cranbrook address tocenter@cranbrook.edu)

Advance registration required (Fee includes all five lectures)
This lecture series is eligible for American Plant of Architects Continuing Instruction Credits (AIA/CES).

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Each week, the 75-minute, epitome-based lecture volition examine and illuminate an aspect of Saarinen's remarkable life and the circle in which he operated. Eero Saarinen (1910-1961) was the architect of some of the most significant buildings of the twentieth century, amongst them the Gateway Arch in St. Louis, Dulles Drome outside Washington, D.C., the TWA Terminal at John F. Kennedy Airport, and the Full general Motors Technical Eye in Michigan. Only Saarinen operated as a collaborator, and the team assembled at Eero Saarinen and Assembly in Bloomfield Hills was integral to the success of the firm. From their critically acclaimed article of furniture and interior designs to buildings and campus plans, the architects and designers in the circle of Eero Saarinen greatly shaped American life.

Each lecture begins with a single building from Eero Saarinen's career as a case study on which to build, examining the collaborators working on each project and then expanding out to the wider context of the work and the legacies of those involved.

The start lecture introduces Eero Saarinen and those involved in his pedagogy and early work, including his parents, Eliel and Loja Saarinen, and his Cranbrook-based collaborators of the 1930s.  The subsequent lectures explore the architects and designers connected to Eero Saarinen and Associates. In just eleven years of operation nether Eero (1950 to 1961), the house employed or consulted designers who impacted the course of American architecture well into the xx-starting time century—including Florence Knoll, Kevin Roche, John Dinkeloo, César Pelli, Robert Venturi, Dan Kiley, Olav Hammarström, Gere Kavanaugh, Glen Paulsen, Gunnar Birkerts, and many others.

The last lecture explores the last years of Eero Saarinen and Associates, with a focus on the impact of Aline Saarinen, art and architecture critic, television journalist, and Eero's second wife, who, among her many accomplishments, helped shape and shepherd the legacy of her husband later on his untimely death at the age of 51.

About KEVIN ADKISSON

Curator Kevin Adkisson works on preservation, interpretation, and programming across the many buildings and treasures of Cranbrook. Since arriving as a Collections Fellow in 2016, Kevin has welcomed thousands of guests to Cranbrook'south National Celebrated Landmark campus, both in person and virtually. Through tours, lectures, and online programming, Kevin makes history come alive with a friendly, humorous nature, and deep passion for art and compages. A native of north Georgia, Kevin earned his BA in Architecture from Yale, where alongside piece of work in design studios he took courses in the history of architecture and in American decorative arts and worked for four years at the Yale University Art Gallery'southward Furniture Study. Kevin received his MA from the University of Delaware's Winterthur Program in American Material Culture, with a thesis examining the role of postmodernism in shopping mall architecture.

Before coming to Cranbrook, Kevin worked for Robert A.Grand. Stern Architects (RAMSA) in New York equally a enquiry and writing associate. At RAMSA, he assisted pattern teams in researching historical reference imagery to be used in the design of the firm's signature modern-traditionalist aesthetic. He also assisted in image research for Stern's books, Paradise Planned: The Garden Suburb and the Modernistic City (2013) and Didactics and Place: 100 Years of Architecture Education at Yale (2016). Kevin Adkisson also worked at Kent Bloomer Studio in New Oasis, Connecticut, on the design and fabrication of architectural ornamentation.

TheHistory of American Compages lecture series is presented by Cranbrook Center for Collections and Research. The fee includes admission to all five lectures. Although the lectures build on each other, omnipresence at all five lectures is not required. Regretfully, discounted tickets cannot exist sold to individual lectures and admission cannot be transferred to other people.

This lecture series is eligible for American Plant of Architects Continuing Education credits (AIA/CES). Each lecture is i Learning Unit (LUs), for a total of 5 LUs. AIA/CES Self Report Forms are available online through the AIA National website. Please call the Heart or your local AIA chapter for more information.

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^{PHOTO CREDITS}
_{Banner Image: The states Jefferson National Expansion Memorial, or "The Gateway Arch," Eero Saarinen, Builder, St. Louis, Missouri, 1947-1965; Photography by James Haefner, Courtesy James Haefner.}

_{J. Irwin Miller and Xenia Simons Miller Business firm, Eero Saarinen and Associates, Architect, Alexander Girard, Interior Pattern, Columbus, Indiana, 1953-1957; Photography by Hadley Fruits, CAA 'ninety, Courtesy Hadley Fruits.}

_{Eero Saarinen Working at Drafting Table with Fritz Kubitz and Kevin Roche Looking On, Circa 1950; Photograph Courtesy of Cranbrook Archives, Cranbrook Middle for Collections and Research.}

_{"Eero's All Night Drive-In," Claude de Forest of Eero Saarinen and Associates, Circa 1956-1958; Photo Courtesy of Cranbrook Athenaeum, Claude de Wood Papers, Cranbrook Center for Collections and Research.}

_{Kleinhans Music Hall, Eliel Saarinen and Eero Saarinen, Consulting Architects, F. J. and W. A Kidd, Architects of Record, Buffalo, New York, 1938-1940; Photo Courtesy of Carol M. Highsmith Annal, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.}

_{General Motors Technical Center, Styling Building. Eero Saarinen and Associates, Builder, Warren, Michigan, 1948-1956; Photography past James Haefner, Courtesy James Haefner.}

_{J. Irwin Miller and Xenia Simons Miller House, Eero Saarinen and Associates, Architect, Alexander Girard, Interior Design, Columbus, Indiana, 1953-1957; Photography past Hadley Fruits, CAA 'ninety, Courtesy Hadley Fruits.}

_{Trans World Airlines Last, John F. Kennedy Airport, Eero Saarinen and Associates, Architect, New York, New York, 1956-1962; Photography past David Mitchell, Courtesy of TWA Hotel.}

_{Columbia Dissemination Systems, Inc., Building, Eero Saarinen and Assembly, Builder, New York, New York, 1960-1965; Photography by Anna D16, Courtesy Anna D16 via Flickr, CC By-NC-ND ii.0.}

_{Kevin Adkisson, 2019; Photography by P.D. Rearick, CAA '10.}

_{Aline, Eames, and Eero Saarinen Bask Dinner at Abode in Bloomfield Hills, 1959; Photography Courtesy of Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University.}

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