Eero Saarinen: Shaping the Future

As a first year architecture student 15 years ago one our History of Architecture papers was to profile an international Architect.

All 90 of us in the class had to profile a different architect, so the day the list went up for us to select our architect was quite chaotic!

Many people in the class, including myself, were keen to profile the Finnish-born Eero Saarinen.

Today I received an email from AutoDesSys the makers of FormZ announcing a new 3D modelling program called Bonszai3d that has just been launched as a BETA. The email then had a feature on Saarinen’s TWA Terminal at New York’s JFK that has been modelled for an exhibition on Saarinen.

Checkout the Model of this amazing building designed 50 years ago.

Checkout the Eero Saarinen Exhibition.

When I look back on my studies and see where technology and software have come over the last 15 years, I can’t help but think but I could do if I was studying architecture today.

Incidentally, I wasn’t quick enough to signup to profile Saarinen, however, keeping with the Nordic theme I profiled Sigurd Lewerentz, one of the two architects of the Stockholm Woodland Cemetery:

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